The official document was finalized on July 4th. It took the delegates two days to draft, edit and approve the Declaration of Independence. The final version was sent to printer John Dunlap on ...

Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...

(2,4,6 . . .), even though the former set includes all the elements of the latter set, in addition to the one that contains ...

When Jefferson wrote the draft of the Declaration of Independence, he had two documents next to him: a draft constitution of Virginia and the Virginia Declaration of Rights. The Virginia ...

Commissioned in 1817, the painting is titled "The Declaration of Independence" and depicts the presentation of Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental ...

The document? A handwritten copy of an original draft of the Declaration of Independence, written in remarkably neat, decisive and legible cursive in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson. It read, in part ...

Before Independence Day comes around ... the reason Franklin was appointed to the Committee of Five to help draft the Declaration. Fun history fact: Franklin also signed the Constitution.

As the Declaration of Independence's 250th anniversary draws near, Jasper County 250 rededicated the gravesite of 1 of the 4 ...

And, in his draft, not only do all persons have ... from the British government was the whole purpose of the Declaration of Independence. "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive ...

The Declaration of Independence is a formal document that ... depiction of the five-man drafting committee presenting their draft to Congress, and not the signing. The painting shows 42 of the ...

The Declaration of Independence is near and dear to the University ... He received help from John Adams and Benjamin Franklin to draft the revolutionary document he called “an expression of ...