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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
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According to the National Archives, Thomas Jefferson started writing the Declaration of Independence in a Philadelphia boarding house on June 11, 1776 and presented his first draft to the Continental Congress less than three weeks later. However, he felt his colleagues “mangled” his words in their subsequent revisions, that compromised draft has nonetheless echoed through the ages.
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Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
- Thomas Jefferson
- Richard Henry Lee
- Benjamin Franklin
- George Washington
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