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Surgery Without Anesthetic In The Declaration Debate
The article reviews a heated session where Jefferson and Congress altered the Declaration of Independence. Deliberations focused on slaver y passages and bold phrasings as delegates fought over wording, capitalization, and references to the Crown, with Dickinson opposed to indictments and Jefferson objecting to changes that softened the text. The drama ends with compromise keeping key assertions while trimming later passages.
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JM Bishop
Thomas Fefferson
State House
Thomson
Dunlap
Hancock
Jefferson
John Adams
John Dickinson
Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin
John Hancock
Congress
George Washington
Massachusetts Bay
Benjamin Harrison
Virginia
England
Thomas Jefferson
Georgia
South Carolina
Massachusetts
King George
Great Britain
America
James Wilson
John Witherspoon
New Jersey
Scotland
God
United States of America
United
United States
States of America
Tme United
Richard Sleary Lee