thomas jefferson drafted most of the declaration of independence.
thomas jefferson drafted most of the declaration of independence.
who drafted most of the declaration of independence?
thomas jefferson
the lee resolution for independence was passed on july 2 with no opposing votes. the committee of five had drafted the declaration to be ready when congress voted on independence. john adams, a leader in pushing for independence, had persuaded the committee to select thomas jefferson to compose the original draft of the document, which congress edited to produce the final version. the declaration was a formal explanation of why congress had voted to declare independence from great britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the american revolutionary war. adams wrote to his wife abigail, "the second day of july 1776, will be the most memorable epocha, in the history of america" – although independence day is actually celebrated on july 4, the date that the wording of the declaration of independence was approved.
united states declaration of independence
other countries have used the declaration as inspiration or have directly copied sections from it. these include the haitian declaration of january 1, 1804, during the haitian revolution, the united provinces of new granada in 1811, the argentine declaration of independence in 1816, the chilean declaration of independence in 1818, costa rica in 1821, el salvador in 1821, guatemala in 1821, honduras in (1821), mexico in 1821, nicaragua in 1821, peru in 1821, bolivian war of independence in 1825, uruguay in 1825, ecuador in 1830, colombia in 1831, paraguay in 1842, dominican republic in 1844, texas declaration of independence in march 1836, california republic in november 1836, hungarian declaration of independence in 1849, declaration of the independence of new zealand in 1835, and the czechoslovak declaration of independence from 1918 drafted in washington d.c. with gutzon borglum among the drafters. the rhodesian declaration of independence, ratified in november 1965, is based on the american one as well; however, it omits the phrases "all men are created equal" and "the consent of the governed". the from december 1860 also mentions the u.s. declaration of independence, though it, like the rhodesian one, omits references to "all men are created equal" and "consent of the governed".
united states declaration of independence