Committee of Five

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The Committee of Five was the group delegated by the Second Continental Congress on June 11, 1776 to draft the United States Declaration of Independence.

Sherman, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, and Livingston.
Sherman, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, and Livingston.

Contents

The Committee of Five presenting their work to the Congress. Painting by John Trumbull.
The Committee of Five presenting their work to the Congress. Painting by John Trumbull.

The committee consisted of:

According to Jefferson:

"The Committee of 5 met, no such thing as a sub-committee was proposed, but they unanimously pressed on myself alone to undertake the draught. I consented; I drew it; but before I reported it to the committee I communicated it separately to Dr. Franklin and Mr. Adams requesting their corrections;. . . Their alterations were two or three only, and merely verbal. I then wrote a fair copy, reported it to the committee, and from them, unaltered to the Congress." [1]

  1. ^ Letter to James Madison, August 30, 1823. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson


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