On July 2, 1776, the Second Continental Congress voted unanimously to declare independence from ... from the writings of philosopher John Locke. The Declaration's second paragraph, however ...

On June 11, 1776, the Second Continental Congress assigned five delegates to write the first draft of the Declaration of Independence. The Committee included Thomas Jefferson from Virginia ...

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President Donald Trump has hung a copy of the Declaration ... of Independence was first published," according to Harvard. The first copies of the Declaration in 1776 were printed by John Dunlap ...