Where did thomas jefferson get the idea for the declaration of independence

Thomas Jefferson's Draft of a Constitution for Virginia, predecessor of The Declaration Of Independence. Immediately on learning that the Virginia Convention had called for independence on May 15, 1776, Jefferson, a Virginia delegate to the Continental Congress, wrote at least three drafts of a Virginia constitution.

industrial revolution, in modern history, the process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing