The document that the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence echoes is "John Locke's Second Treatise of Government."
This is because "John Locke's Second Treatise of Government, "the main idea focused on the fact that people are equal and invested with natural rights in a state of nature in which they live free from outside rule.
Similarly, the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence states that "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable sights.
