Throughout the Declaration of Independence, in which Jefferson emphatically declared America's independence from Great Britain., Jefferson, indirectly, alludes to Locke many times through intertextuality (Tip , Class, 9/30 /15). For example, Jefferson sadly declares that “all men are created equal” and as such all are afforded “certain unalienable rights which among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” This is impeccably similar to Locke's claim of natural rights in the Second Treatise, except that Jefferson leaves out "property" and replaces it with "the pursuit of happiness" instead. PWH, 664). Furthermore, like Locke, Jefferson believes that government is created simply to protect the rights of the people and that if the government fails to protect these rights and becomes abusive in its powers, the people have the right to abolish the government and form a new government as they deem appropriate. Furthermore, there also appears to be some parallels between Locke's Second Treatise, Jefferson's Declaration, French's Declaration, as all three documents express the idea of ​​the “consent of the governed” (RM&C Declaration, p.91; Jefferson , p..