John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

According to the declaration of independence, we are all equal. I think the right that Jefferson is talking about is that we have the right to speak. Every one's voice should be heard. I think the government get its power from the people. We decide who runs for office and what happens in our world today. "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed", this quote means that they derive there power from the people. We are the people being governed. Jefferson got all of his idea from John Locke who instituted the basic idea of democracy.