The so-called Committee of Five that was selected to draft the Declaration consisted of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman. Jefferson did the entire initial draft. Adams and Franklin made some changes before it was submitted to Congress. Sherman and Livingston did not contribute to the drafting itself.
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Thomas Jefferson wrote Almost the entire first draft.
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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.
Thomas Jefferson started the draft for the Declaration of Independence.
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.
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman
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
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