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No, our current Congress was seated in 1789, 13 years after our Declaration of Independence and years after the Revolutionary War.
The committee presented the final draft before Congress on June 28, 1776, and Congress adopted the final text of the Declaration of Independence on July 4.
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The outcome of the Second Continental Congress was that the King rejected the Olive Branch petition and the fighting continued. The Declaration of Independence soon made it clear that the colonies desired to throw off British rule.
The people approved the publication of "Common Sense" b. George Washington took command of the Continental Army. c. Congress sent the Olive Branch Petition to the king. d. Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence.
On July 4,1776, the US Declaration of Independence was released to the press. It had been approved by vote of the Continental Congress on July 2. It declared that the former 13 colonies were now the United States of America, and were severing all ties with Great Britain.This is the date the United States adopted the Declaration of Independence, declaring its Independence from Great Britain.On July 4,1776, the US Declaration of Independent was released to the press. It had been approved by vote of the Continental Congress on July 2.
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Jefferson was the main author and Adams, Franklin, and Jay editing it. It took 6 rewrites to come up with the final results. Congress didn't approve it on July 4, 1776, but in October. It was published in July.
After Jefferson wrote the Declaration, John Adams and Ben Franklin changed some of the wording. Then, more words were changed when the Continental Congress voted to approve the document. For example, Jefferson wanted to outlaw slavery, but the continental congress made him change it.
The Second Continental Congress had three chief activities that they had to approve. First, they had to prosecute war. This entailed attempting to fund and supply an army. They requested assistance from the colonies and individuals such as Robert Morris, who funded the Navy. Then congress attempted to find foreign allies sympathetic to their cause. To achieve thus they needed to have diplomatic recognition. However, to achieve this diplomatic recognition they had to representative of a new nation. This led to the second activity that this congress approved, the Declaration of Independence. Once the Independence was proclaimed French, Dutch and Spanish forces allied themselves with the new born nation and aided in the revolution. A new problem arose out of the becoming independent. Having formed a new government congress needed to approve a third and final thing. Rules for the newly independent United States needed to be written. The Constitution for the new government was written and approved by that congress.