How are the ideas of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke expressed in the Delcaration of Independence? Or in what ways were their ideas modified in the...

If Hobbes
had no
influence on the Declaration of Independence, then I must ask why in

Leviathan Hobbes clearly discusses natural rights and freedoms and
how men
and women establish governments in order to secure peace. How is this
not the social contract
theory that Jefferson argues in favor of? Locke later
borrowed this theory from Hobbes. He
changed it because he didn't believe in
the absolute right of governments to rule like Hobbes
did, but the concept is
still very much the same.

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