A committee of five members, including Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert LIVINGSTON, John Adams, and Roger Sherman, had been appointed to prepare a declaration explaining the resolution. and Jefferson was assigned to write a draft of the declaration. With a few minor changes by Adams and Franklin, the draft was debated and adopted on July 4, 1776.
The Committee of Five of the Continental Congress drafted the Declaration of Independence. The committee consisted of John Adams, Robert Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Roger Sherman.
The five men from the Constitutional Convention who were delegated as a committee to write it the Declaration of Independence were John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman. Once Jefferson finished the document, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin made some small changes. Livingston and Sherman are not believed to have any input in the first draft.
The 56 signatories of the Declaration of Independence were:
Delaware
• George Read
• Caesar Rodney
• Thomas McKean
Pennsylvania
• George Clymer
• Benjamin Franklin
• Robert Morris
• John Morton
• Benjamin Rush
• George Ross
• James Smith
• James Wilson
• George Taylor
Massachusetts
•John Adams
• Samuel Adams
• John Hancock
• Robert Treat Paine
• Elbridge Gerry
New Hampshire
• Josiah Bartlett
• William Whipple
• Matthew Thornton
Rhode Island
• Stephen Hopkins
• William Ellery
New York
• Lewis Morris
• Philip Livingston
• Francis Lewis
• William Floyd
Georgia
• Button Gwinnett
• Lyman Hall
• George Walton
Virginia
• Richard Henry Lee
• Francis Lightfoot Lee
• Carter Braxton
• Benjamin Harrison
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Wythe
• Thomas Nelson, Jr.
North Carolina
• William Hooper
• John Penn
• Joseph Hewes
South Carolina
• Edward Rutledge
• Arthur Middleton
• Thomas Lynch, Jr.
• Thomas Heyward, Jr.
New Jersey
• Abraham Clark
• John Hart
• Francis Hopkinson
• Richard Stockton
• John Witherspoon
Connecticut
• Samuel Huntington
• Roger Sherman
• William Williams
• Oliver Wolcott
Maryland
• Charles Carroll
• Samuel Chase
• Thomas Stone
• William Paca
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The five members of the committee assigned to write the Declaration were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Benjamin Franklin, and Robert R. Livingston.
The 5 people who were on the comitee that wrote the Declaration of Independence were Thomas Jefferson, Rodger Sherman, Robert Livingston, John Adams and Benjamin Franklin.
The committee established on June 11, 1776 included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.
The declaration was written by the continental congress. I believe it is referred to as the Second Continental Congress.
Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston
Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration with Franklin, Adams, and Jay as editors. It took 6 rewrites before it was approved by congress.
Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, although he was a slave holder, and the Declaration had many parts taken out in order to get the Continental Congress to approve it.
The Second Continental Congress produced the Declaration of Independence.
The first Continental Congress created the Continental army and also wrote the Declaration of Independence. The Continental Congress is also responsible for making George Washington the General of the Army.
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 Second Continental Congress wrote, approved and signed the Declaration.
He and the congress wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson :D
It was written primarily by Thomas Jefferson. It was adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
Thomas Jefferson wrote the declaration with Franklin, Adams, and Jay as editors. It took 6 rewrites before it was approved by congress.
wrote The Declaration of Rights and Grievances. You're welcome
Thomas Jefferson wrote and publish the Declaration of Independence.
The Declaration of Independence was written by Thomas Jefferson, and it was debated and approved by the Second Continental Congress in 1776.
who wrote a summary view of the rights of British America
Thomas Jefferson, the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, although he was a slave holder, and the Declaration had many parts taken out in order to get the Continental Congress to approve it.
at the second continental congress,they wrote the declaration of independence which they presented to king george | and then broke out war
The Second Continental Congress produced the Declaration of Independence.