On July 4, 1776, Thomas Jefferson and 55 of his fellow delegates to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ratified the Declaration of Independence. This historic document was written for the purpose of announcing and explaining the separation from the Kingdom of Great Britain.While the rough draft of the Declaration of Independence is stored in the Library of Congress, the 1823 facsimile of the engrossed copy, pictured above, is currently displayed in the National Archives.
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