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In June of 1776 a man by the name of Thomas Jefferson drafted a document to alleviate our great nation from the oppression of Great Britain. At the age of 33 Jefferson was one of the youngest members of the Second Continental Congress, but still he held a great r ....

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.... Jefferson was unanimously elected by a Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson Took to work at his desk in the attic of a brick layer's house where he was staying while in Philadelphia. As a distinguished writer Jefferson knew just what needed to go into his document, he took the feelings of the people of the 13 colonies and put them into his words. He addressed the reasons for our independence, which he listed in a set of complaints to the King of England, even though Jefferson knew that the king did not cause some of the problems the people were facing himself but were caused by Parliament. However Jefferson knew that th ....