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French soldiers brought home ideas about government and rights from the American Revolution, including news of the Declaration of Independence. One of the ideas presented in the Declaration of Independence is equality for all. Englishman Thomas Hobbes and which other Enlightenment thinker proposed this idea?

Rosseau
Montesquieu
Locke
Voltaire

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Locke

John Locke (an English Enlightenment thinker) argued that people are naturally equal and possess natural rights—ideas that influenced the Declaration of Independence.