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in the declaration of independence Thomas Jefferson made the case for independence from Great Britain by applying ideas from the enlightenment. The ideas in the Declaration of Independence that were inspired by the Enlightenment were the ideas of natural rights, liberty, private property, and equality.
What those ideas meant to Thomas Jefferson were that those ideals represented the essence of the new government of the United States. That is why he considered himself as an Anti-federalists, who opposed the Federalist's ideas of Federalists such as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, about having a strong central government. Jefferson aspired to have a more simple form of government in which citizens had rights and liberties.
