Creating the United States

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Realizing the importance of the writing of the Declaration of Independence for the American Revolution and posterity, Thomas Jefferson prepared these notes of the proceedings in the Continental Congress in the summer of 1776. He included a copy of the Declaration as it was presented to Congress on June 28 and amended by them in the days leading up to its final approval by Congress on July 4, 1776.

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That if the delegates of any particular colony . . .


Realizing the importance of the writing of the Declaration of Independence for the American Revolution and posterity, Thomas Jefferson prepared these notes of the proceedings in the Continental Congress in the summer of 1776. He included a copy of the Declaration as it was presented to Congress on June 28 and amended by them in the days leading up to its final approval by Congress on July 4, 1776.