Answer: Declaration of the Rights of Men
From what document does it state that men are born and created equal?

The quotation "all men are created equal" is part of the U.S. Declaration of Independence which Thomas Jefferson penned in 1776 during the beginning of the American Revolution. The phrase was present in Jefferson's original draft of the declaration. It was thereafter quoted and incorporated into speeches by a wide array of substantial figures in American political and social life in the United States. The fi…

The quotation "all men are created equal" is part of the U.S. Declaration of Independence which Thomas Jefferson penned in 1776 during the beginning of the American Revolution. The phrase was present in Jefferson's original draft of the declaration. It was thereafter quoted and incorporated into speeches by a wide array of substantial figures in American political and social life in the United States. The final form of the phrase was stylized by Benjamin Franklin. It has been called an "immortal declaration" and "perhaps [the] single phrase" of the American Revolutionary period with the greatest "continuing importance."

Thomas Jefferson through his friendship with Marquis de Lafayette was heavily influenced by French philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment such as Voltaire Rousseau and Montesquieu . In their often censored writings those philosophers advocated that men were born free and equal. This later led to the French Revolution of 1789 and the concept of Human Rights (Droits de l'Homme in French). A…

Thomas Jefferson through his friendship with Marquis de Lafayette was heavily influenced by French philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment such as Voltaire Rousseau and Montesquieu . In their often censored writings those philosophers advocated that men were born free and equal. This later led to the French Revolution of 1789 and the concept of Human Rights (Droits de l'Homme in French). At the age of 33 Jefferson may have also borrowed the expression from an Italian friend born in Prato and neighbor Philip Mazzei as noted by Joint Resolution 175 of the 103rd Congress as well as by John F. Kennedy in A Nation of Immigrants . An earlier mention of almost the exact same phrase is in John Milton s 1649 book called The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates written after the First English Civil War to defend the actions and rights of the Parliamentary cause in the wake of the execution of king Charles I . The English poet says: ...

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