What Does a Drafter Do?

The five-member team was the author of the United States Declaration of Independence, including John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert Livingston of New York, and Roger Sher of Connecticut Man.

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(Drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence)

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The five-member team was the author of the United States Declaration of Independence, including John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert Livingston of New York, and Roger Sher of Connecticut Man.

Drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence. These include John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut.

In June 1776, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut gathered to draft a suitable statement to declare Determination of independence. The five-member group decided that the declaration was independently drafted by Thomas Jefferson and displayed to Franklin and Adams. Franklin alone revised at least 48 of them. Jefferson later recorded a revised version, which was presented to the Continental Parliament on June 28, 1776 by a five-member group.