Thomas hobbes influence on declaration of independence

Leviathan & The Declaration of Independence

"For the savage people in many places of America, except the government of small families, the concord whereof dependeth on natural lust, have no government at all and live at this day in that brutish manner as I said before"  -  Leviathan 

Little did Hobbes know as he wrote these words a mere thirty years after the pilgrims landed on the Mayflower (1620) that his political theories would influence a revolution amongst these "savage people".  Though the declaration of independence would be written over a century later (1776) and be influenced by interpretation of Hobbes thought as well innovative political theories from the likes of John Locke and Jean Jaques Rousseua, there are many parallels that can be drawn from the analysis of both texts.

Leviathan: Chapter 13 (pg 1661)

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