We're All Equal

jefferson and most of the 17 70 sixes were all channelling john locke, at least at that time. And i think he got this either, you know, jefferson may have lifted it out of the virginia declaration of rights but it ultimately comes from a passage from locke. It's how he starts his second treatise of government. He says, to understand political power right and derive it from its original we must consider what state all men are naturally in. The only way in which we are equal is that no one has any inherent right to rule another person. That's the end of it. There's no more equality.