the second continental congress
Thomas Jefferson is credited with the writting of the declaration of independance.Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. He asked that this feat be carved on his tombstone.
Thomas Jefferson is credited with the writting of the declaration of independance.Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. He asked that this feat be carved on his tombstone.
Thomas Jefferson
When members of the Congress asked Thomas Jefferson to draft the DEclaration of Independence he did so. It only took 3 weeks for him to write it. Years later Thomas decided to make his words into reality in Virginia. :]
He was asked to write it by congress and didn't "get his idea". Jefferson based what he wrote from reading John Locke and talking to him about government.
Yes and it is called the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson. The Continental Congress assigned five people to a committee to write the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson, one of the members of the Committee, was asked by the others to write the first draft. Benjamin Franklin and another future President, John Adams, were also members of the committee and made a few comments, but the Declaration as adopted by the Continental Congress was essentially the same as Jefferson's draft.
June 1776. Thomas Jefferson was one of five members of the Second Continental Congress appointed on June 11, 1776 to write the Declaration of Independence. The other committee members asked Jefferson to write the first draft, which he completed in 18 days.
Thomas Jefferson was important in the revolutionary war because he was a patriot in the American revolution.
Benjamin Franklin did help to write and revise the Declaration. Although he was sick with gout at the time of the drafting, Thomas Jefferson brought him a copy of the rough draft and asked for his revisions.
Thomas Jefferson was asked to draft (write) the declaration of independance. He added in statements such as all men are created equal that at the time created a large amount of contreversy. He also was one of the signers of the final draft of the declaration of independance that is currently in the national archives.
When the asked him to sign the Declaration of Independence.