Notes 3: Declaration of Independence notes

4. JOHN ADAMS ROGER SHERMAN ROBERT LIVINGSTON THOMAS JEFFERSON BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Committee of Five #1, 2

5. June 11 : The committee is commissioned to write the Declaration of Independence June 28 : The committee presents the document to the Second Continental Congress #3, 5

6. 86 changes Notable Slavery references eliminated “ Sacred” replaced with “self-evident” #4

7. Richard Henry Lee: Makes resolution to break ties with England #6

8. Virginia Georgia South Carolina North Carolina Maryland New Jersey Pennsylvania New York Rhode Island Massachusetts Delaware New Hampshire Connecticut

9. South Carolina Pennsylvania New York Delaware #7

10. July 2 : The Declaration of Independence is approved #8

11. The Second Day of July 1776 , will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated , by succeeding Generations, as the great anniversary Festival . It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade with shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this continent to the other from this Time forward forever more. -- John Adams

12. July 4 : The Declaration of Independence is signed #9

13. #9

15. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth… #10

16. When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation . #11