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Thomas Jefferson was responsible for actually writing the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and Benjamin Franklin were also with Thomas Jefferson as the Committee of Five chosen by the Second Continental Congress to create the document.
"In order to create a more perfect Union"
A free society Of the People, For the people, and BY the people. A FREE country, that was not controlled by Tyrants, that allowed the protection of the liberty of even one single individual.
No, the Declaration of Independence is not a law making document. The US Constitution is the document that creates the laws that govern the US. The Declaration can only be used to help indicate the intent of the Constitution's framers, but does not create law.
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Thomas Jefferson was responsible for actually writing the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and Benjamin Franklin were also with Thomas Jefferson as the Committee of Five chosen by the Second Continental Congress to create the document.
Thomas Jefferson was responsible for actually writing the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. John Adams, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and Benjamin Franklin were also with Thomas Jefferson as the Committee of Five chosen by the Second Continental Congress to create the document.
As I know from reading a biography of John Adams by David McCullough, both Benjamin Franklin and John Adams worked with Jefferson to create the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson wrote majority of the document all on his own, but both Franklin and Adams helped to direct the document to apply to all types of religions and people. Jefferson originally had the claim, "we hold these truths to be true before God." Franklin, feeling that the line was a little too direct, changed the sentence to "we hold these truths to be self-evident."
"In order to create a more perfect Union"
The writers of the Declaration of Independence the articles of confederation and The constitution all used quill pens to create these famous documents
A free society Of the People, For the people, and BY the people. A FREE country, that was not controlled by Tyrants, that allowed the protection of the liberty of even one single individual.
No, the Declaration of Independence is not a law making document. The US Constitution is the document that creates the laws that govern the US. The Declaration can only be used to help indicate the intent of the Constitution's framers, but does not create law.
John Locke was known to influence Thomas Jefferson while he was writing the Declaration of Independenc. He rewrote John Lockes qoute "life liberty and property" to be "life liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independance.
it gave good reasons for becoming independent