To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. At the committee’s request, Thomas Jefferson drafted the declaration. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. In anticipation of a vote for independence, the Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft a declaration of independence in June of 1776 in Philadelphia behind a veil of congressionally imposed secrecy. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. Image 3 of Thomas Jefferson, June 1776, Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence. Image 2 of Thomas Jefferson, June 1776, Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Image 1 of Thomas Jefferson, June 1776, Rough Draft of the Declaration of Independence. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. On the last page of the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. University of Illinois linguist Dennis Baron has the full story. New techniques of 'digital archaeology' reveal long-lost secrets about how Thomas Jefferson tinkered with word choice while drafting the Declaration of Independence. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, - That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Revising Freedom: Jefferson's Rough Draft. When Thomas Jefferson included a passage attacking slavery in his draft of the Declaration of Independence it initiated the most intense debate among the. Yet, as Documents I and II in this series prove. It is small wonder that, nearly half a century after the event, he should have thought it was the original rough draft, for its interlineations, additions, deletions, and marginalia certainly gave it the appearance of being a composition draft. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The Declaration of Independence Editorial Note.
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