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Not all people view the word freedom the same way as everyone else. Because it is such an abstract word, there are many possibilities of different views for freedom. Great people that have made a mark in history don’t all think alike. People like Thomas Jefferson and Martin Luther King Jr., both very different people and from very different time periods but both believe in freedom. Thomas Jefferson’s view on freedom is the type of freedom that most Americans will understand. His view of freedom is basically all men should have rights that one can exercise and also not have a tyrant abusing his power over the country. Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and had chosen material from other known philosophers such as Rousseau. When he writes that “all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights”, he agrees with Rousseau’s emphasis. When he wrote the constitution, congress didn’t really dislike a sovereign power from across t