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1. The Second Continental Congress selected Thomas Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson was a statesman from Virginia who was known as an idealist and a good wnter. Jefferson locked himself in a room for a few days, writing on a special desk te had designed. His dratt stated forcefully that governments dont grant rights: people are born, or endowed, with unalienable rights that they are entitled to, and the government should protect those rights. Those rights include iſe, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Furthermore, the government gets its power and legitimacy from the will of the people, not from God, tradition or military power. These ideas come directly from the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was a philosophical movement with origins in Europe in the seventeenth century. Thinkers like John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau proposed the revolutionary Ideas that men were born with rights and that governments rested on the will of the people. Jefferson was heavily inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment Which of these is most likely true of Thomas Jefferson? A. Thomas Jefferson was not familiar with any 8. Thomas Jefferson did not agree with John Enlightenment thinkers. Locke about the role of the government, C. Thomas Jefferson read the works of John D. Thomas Jefferson's ideas would later Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. influence John Locke. ОА O B

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