33. Use the excerpt and your knowledge of Social Studies to answer the following question.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are
endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life,
Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.-That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. ..
-U. S. Declaration of Independence, 1776
The greatest influence on these political ideas came from the —
A. Justinian Code
B. writings of John Locke
C. philosophy of Machiavelli
D. theories of Jean-Jacques Rousseau