Locke and Jefferson

While reading the Second Treatise on Government and the Declaration of Independence I noticed many similarties between the two writings. Even though one was written before the other they both focused on the injustices that they were seeing by the British. The two writters were drawing attention to these and showing how to make a difference. While the Declaration of Independence focused a lot on what the government was going to do to make the US a better place to live for it's people. Locke discussed there were many aspects of the new world that were unequal. He talked about the state of nature and that without this there is no state at all. The Declaration also talks about the state of nature and how that effects the government. Both have a clear view of how the nature of things effects the government.

References:

Locke, J. (1690). Second Treatise on Government. Retrieved on October 26, 2007, from http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/texts/locke/locke2/2nd-contents.html.

Jefferson, T. (1776). Declaration of Independence. Retrieved on October 26, 2007 from http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/declaration_transcript.html.