Which of the following textual evidence from the Declaration best supports this claim?
Some of the language of the Declaration of Independence echoes the
language of John Locke in his Second Treatise on Government, published in
1689
(All men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that
among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries
and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute
Tyranny over these States
Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth on this continent
a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of
the press