The Second Continental Congress appoints Delegates Robert R. Livingston, of the colony of New York; Thomas Jefferson, of the colony of Virginia; Benjamin Franklin, of the colony of Pennsylvania; John Adams, of the colony of Massachusetts Bay; and Roger Sherman, of the colony of Connecticut, to draft a “declaration of independence.”
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Magna Carta, Chapter 13
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 20.
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