John Locke and "The Enlighment"

John Locke had a modern outlook on life. He believed that everyone should be equal. So he came up with the natural rights. They were life , liberty and property.He was very concerned and believed that everyone should be treated equally because we are all humans. His arguments on this was so strong that Thomas Jefferson wrote about it in the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson had wrote about all men having the same rights from which they are born till they die.Also that god gave us the rights and no one can take them away. All the ideas from todays democracy had came from John Locke. He was one of the most important people in U.S history.