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In June 1776, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft a formal document outlining the arguments in support of independence. Although Thomas Jefferson of Virginia gets most of the credit for the document we know today as the Declaration of Independence, the drafting committee also included John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. Their draft was first presented to Congress on June 28,

In June 1776, the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft a formal document outlining the arguments in support of independence. Although Thomas Jefferson of Virginia gets most of the credit for the document we know today as the Declaration of Independence, the drafting committee also included John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut, and Robert R. Livingston of New York. Their draft was first presented to Congress on June 28,…