Of all his writings, Thomas Jefferson's most famous and far-reaching was undoubtedly his draft of the Declaration of Independence. Although the issue of slavery was widely debated -- both the ...

In his first version of the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson wrote a scathing indictment of King George for promoting slavery in the New World. The other delegates eventually removed ...

Some of them went on to become president (like John Adams and Thomas Jefferson ... Who has the most valuable signature on the ...

and Thomas Jefferson to compose a declaration to frame Lee's resolution. Which, in good lawyerly form, would itemize the reasons why the independence of the 13 British North American colonies and ...

This quotation forms the opening of the Declaration of Independence, and was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776 ... The handwritten copy with the signatures of all the delegates has been ...

Trump’s plan is nothing less than a second Declaration of Independence for the American ... of liberty with the blood of tyrants, as Thomas Jefferson did. I think we can accomplish a peaceful ...

A July 1776 broadside of the Declaration of Independence is on offer at Sotheby ... The Declaration, Thomas Jefferson later wrote, was intended as “an expression of the American mind ...

The Declaration of Independence, along with the preamble ... privilege to rule over other people without their consent. 2 Thomas Jefferson said that “the mass of mankind has not been born ...