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Jefferson had included a paragraph in his initial rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence vigorously condemning the evil of the slave trade, and condemning King George III for forcing it onto the colonies, but this was deleted from the final version. [22]: 146–150 [62]
During these allotted three weeks Congress agreed to appoint a committee to draft a statement to outline the reasons for the Colonies seceding from the British Empire. The actual declaration of "American Independence" is precisely the text comprising the final paragraph of the published broadside of July 4.
The Declaration of Independence, which officially announced and explained the case for independence, was approved two days later, on July 4, 1776. The resolution is named for Richard Henry Lee of Virginia , who proposed it to Congress after receiving instructions and wording from the Fifth Virginia Convention and its President Edmund Pendleton .
Declaration of Independence, an 1819 portrait by John Trumbull, shows the Committee of Five submitting its draft of the Declaration of Independence to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, voted unanimously to declare independence as the "United States of ...
Jul. 4—The Declaration of Independence, adopted 246 years ago this week, has been many things through the years: A call to arms, a statement of purpose, an appeal for help, a treatise on ...
It officially adopted the American Theory of Government: First Come Rights; Then Comes Government to Secure These Rights
The first page of Jefferson's rough draft. Thomas Jefferson preserved a four-page draft that late in life he called the "original Rough draft". [5] [6] Known to historians as the Rough Draft, early students of the Declaration believed that this was a draft written alone by Jefferson and then presented to the Committee of Five drafting committee.
Wikimedia Commons. He later signed another oath, declaring his allegiance to the state of New Jersey and to the United States. To make a living, he reopened his law practice and trained new students.