 | John Clark Ridpath - 1880 - 422 ページ
...The final consideration of Lee's resolution was postponed until the 1st of July. On the llth of June, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston, were appointed a committee to prepare a formal declaration. 11. On the 1st of July, the committee's... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1881 - 650 ページ
...that a committee be appointed to prepare a Declaration to the effect of the resolution. This committee was elected by ballot, on the following day, and consisted...when committees are elected by ballot, that their members should be arranged in order, according to the number of votes which each has received. Mr.... | |
 | United States. Constitution Sesquicentennial Commission - 1941 - 904 ページ
...of their constituents; but a committee was appointed to draft a declaration. The members of it were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Jefferson wrote the draft. The resolution for independence was adopted on July 2, 1776, by the Congress,... | |
 | 1918 - 794 ページ
...page 6.) passed July 2. A committee to draw up a declaration of independence was appointed, consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingstone. That they did their work in a Christian spirit and with a high sense of right and justice... | |
 | National Archives (U.S.) - 1952 - 44 ページ
...the Lee Resolution, Congress elected a committee of five to prepare the Declaration of Independence: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. On June II Congress also passed resolutions that committees be appointed to prepare a plan of confederation... | |
 | United States. National Archives and Records Service - 1970 - 84 ページ
...to July 2d 177(1. The committee of five elected to prepare the Declaration of Independence included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston (document 12). The Lee Resolution was again before Congress for action on July i. After considerable... | |
 | Mary Ann Radzinowicz - 1984 - 300 ページ
...are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States'. A few days later a committee composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston was appointed to 'prepare a declaration to the effect of the first resolution'. Jefferson wrote a first... | |
 | Michael J. McHugh, Charles Morris, Edward J. Shewan - 1998 - 210 ページ
...of an English king; therefore, a paper was written by a member from Virginia named Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston were appointed to prepare the Declaration of Independence. with the help of four others appointed by... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - 1998 - 1012 ページ
...of articles of confederation to be proposed to the States . . . The committee of independence were Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Mr. Jefferson had been now about a year a member of Congress, but had attended his duty in the house... | |
 | Derek H. Davis - 2000 - 328 ページ
...of independence in the event of its adoption. This committee, selected on n June 1776, was composed of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston. Before we consider the Declaration and its underlying ideology, in particular its religious dimensions,... | |
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July; and at the same time, it was voted that a committee be appointed to prepare a Declaration to the effect of the resolution. This committee was elected by ballot, on the following day, and consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin,... 
