their jobs were to draft and sign the declaration of independence and since they were in the continental congress...that guaranteed them a spot on the document
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson
The Continental Congress created a draft committee consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman. However, the actual writing of the Declaration of Independence was performed by Jefferson alone.
He didn't. On June 11, 1776, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman were were given the duty to draft it. The writing was done by Jefferson. The first draft was revised by Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson before it was sent to Congress, where it was again changed.
The main person that wrote it was Thomas Jefferson but other than Jefferson there was *Benjamin Franklin, *John Adams, *Robert R. Livingston, and *Roger Sherman
It was written by a committee consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman. Jefferson did the actual writing, it his language.
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston
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they were all supposed to draft the declaation of independence
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert R. Livingston and Roger Sherman. Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson
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 Declaration of Independence was drafted by the Committee of Five of the Continental Congress. The Committee of Five was John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
Thomas Jefferson, along with Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and John Adams
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, but Benjamin Franklin refused to so it was just four.
Thomas Jefferson is credited with the second and third (final draft) writing of the Declaraction of Independence. Their is evidence that John Adams may have written an original that Jefferson worked off of. The "commitee of five" Jefferson, Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman were the creators of the draft that Jefferson wrote. Jefferson, Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.
thomas jefferson was a writer and benjamin franklin was a printer thomas jefferson was a president benjamin franklin was not