Answer:
Locke.
Explanation:
The American Declaration of Independence is a document that expresses the ideals on which the newly founded United States was to be run. This document presents the people's assertion of choosing their own government.
And just like in the Declaration of Independence, the idea of "equality before the law" was also proposed by Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, two English philosophers and thinkers. Locke wrote in his Treatise II:
<em>"The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason which is that law, teaches all mankind who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions..."</em>
Thus, the correct answer is Locke.
