Locke talked about how people have the right to overthrow and unjust governments and Jefferson also had this concept in writing the Declaration. The Declaration was created to explain why the colonies wanted independence from the English. The similarity between both arguments is that Jefferson wanted to separate from a government that treated the people badly “to loosen political ties” (Constitution) and Locke had the same idea that the people should get rid of the corrupt government. In the second part of the Declaration, Locke's influence can be further seen when Jefferson states that "all men are created equal." There is also another similarity between the two documents, as Jefferson explains in the Declaration that all men have the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Locke also emphasized this point, except that Locke believed that all men had the right to life, liberty, and property. Locke wrote earlier that revolutions are rare because most of the time people do not feel that the government is abusing power too much. However, in this case Jefferson explained that the British government had a “history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these States” (Constitution). In Locke's writings he also explains that tyrants only care about their own needs and do not provide for society. Therefore, Jefferson and the Americans had the right to overthrow the government because the government did not provide for the governed. Jefferson wrote a list of charges against British rule to influence Americans to revolt. One of the accusations made by Jefferson is that the King "has refused his assent to the laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good" (Constitution). This is important because Locke explained it in his article