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To: unclewest who wrote (133223)	5/17/2004 1:49:41 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

The organized political liberation process for America began in June 1776 with Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence. Balderdash. The First Continental Congress was called in 1774, the second in 1775, and ended in 1789. The Declaration of Independence was drafted pursuant to a resolution for independence first moved by Richard Henry Lee, which was carried on July 2, 1776. If you've ever seen the first draft of the Declaration of Independence, you'll see how much of it was written by people other than Jefferson. It was, after all, written by a committee, which included Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman. Jefferson did the bulk of the work, and it went through several revisions. The Committee was appointed by the Second Continental Congress, in 1776. At that time the President of the Continental Congress was John Hancock. It was preceded by the Virginia Declaration of Rights, drafted in the main by George Mason, approved by the Virginia House of Delegates, June 12, 1776. historicaltextarchive.com Then there were the Articles of Confederation, approved 1777. historicaltextarchive.com None of these events transpired in private, and certainly the drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution did not, either. It was drafted over a period of months in 1787, with much debate in Independence Hall, formerly the Philadelphia State House, and was much debated by the states prior to ratification in 1789.