What was the relationship between John Locke and Thomas Jefferson? John Locke and Thomas Jefferson conducted a famous series of
debates at Lloyd's Coffeehouse in London. Thomas Jefferson married John Locke's granddaughter and inherited many of Locke's unpublished papers. Thomas Jefferson paraphrased John Locke in the Declaration of Independence. John Locke quoted Thomas Jefferson in the Second Treatise on Government.
Thomas Jefferson paraphrased John Locke in the Declaration of Independence, is the right answer.
John Locke was a philosopher during the Enlightenment period whose executive theories did not support the elected assembly based on inheritance. His views and opinions about the state in the work "Two-Treatises of Government" urged Thomas Jefferson at the time while he drafted the Declaration of Independence for American colonies. Locke suggested opinions about the centrality of resources in human freedom and the beliefs of natural law (which asserts that everyone takes birth with natural rights).
