The Enlightenment and John Locke

The Enlightenment was a new way people came up with ideas. People like John Locke an english philosopher and an enlightenment thinker. His idea influenced people like Thomas Jefferson and Thomas Jefferson to write the declaration of independence. The declaration of independence is an example of an enlightenment, it's written by a group of enlightenment thinkers from America. It's about civil rights in America. This change the way people think in America, it also gave people the right to vote and every man was created equal.