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.
The prime author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. This was authored together with the committee appointed to draft the document.
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Congress selected a committee to draft a declaration of independence. The committee was composed of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman.
About two months
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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.
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.
The prime author of the Declaration of Independence was Thomas Jefferson. This was authored together with the committee appointed to draft the document.
Rich guys.
Congress selected a committee to draft a declaration of independence. The committee was composed of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman.
About two months
Thomas Jefferson started the draft for the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, John Adams, and Ben Franklin
The principal author of the original draft of the declaration independence, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, agreed on the sentiments that based it on the form of the United States Declaration of Independence.
Draft and sign the Declaration of Independence.
Philosopher john Locke's ideas were an important influence on the Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence