DECLARATION

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DECLARATION
OF
INDEPENDENCE
BY CADET MR. ANDREW
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• On June 11, 1776, a committee consisting of John
  Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of
  Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia,
  Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger
  Sherman of Connecticut (the "Committee of Five"),
  was formed to draft a suitable declaration to
  frame this resolution. The committee decided that
  Jefferson would write the draft, which he showed
  to Franklin and Adams, who made several minor
  corrections. Jefferson then produced another copy
  incorporating these changes, and the committee
  presented this copy to the Continental Congress
  on June 28, 1776.

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EXISTANCE

• The Declaration of Independence is the document
  in which the Thirteen Colonies in North America
  declared themselves independent of the Kingdom of
  Great Britain and explained their justifications
  for doing so. It was ratified by the Second
  Continental Congress on July 4, 1776. This
  anniversary is celebrated as Independence Day in
  the United States. The handwritten copy signed by
  the delegates to the Congress is on display in
  the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

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• The first and most famous signature on the
  engrossed copy was that of John Hancock,
  President of the Continental Congress. Two future
  presidents, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, were
  among the signatories. Edward Rutledge (age 26),
  was the youngest signer, and Benjamin Franklin
  (age 70) was the oldest signer. The fifty-six
  signers of the Declaration represented the new
  states as follows (from North to South)

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• The United States two dollar bill (2) is a
  current denomination of U.S. currency. Former
  U.S. President Thomas Jefferson is featured on
  the obverse of the note. The painting The
  Declaration of Independence by John Trumbull is
  featured on the reverse. The design on the
  obverse (excluding the elements of a Federal
  Reserve Note) is the oldest of all current U.S.
  currency having been adopted in 1929 the reverse
  is the second oldest design having been adopted
  in 1976.

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