Which document died the second paragraph of the declaration of independence echo?

John Locke's Second Treatise of Government

Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan

Baron de Montesquieu's The Spirit if Laws

The U. S. Constitution

The second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence echoed John Locke's Second Treatise of Government. The second paragraph contains the famous lines: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal ..."

Several parts of the Declaration of Independence echoed John Locke's Second Treatise of Government. Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration, studied Locke for many years.