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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
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Sure it is. Richard Henry Lee proposed it on June 7, the Committee Of Five was formed on June 10, Jefferson gave the first draft to Adams and Franklin on June 30, Congress voted for Independence on July 2, but the document was published for all the world to see on...July 5!
I know, It says "In Congreff, July 4 1776", so that's the date that even Adams and Jefferson remembered as old men. Of course they also remembered signing it on the fourth, which they didn't actually do until August 2, but hey...
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Congress voted to approve the Lee Resolution on 2 July, which is the day we declared our independence.
http://www.masshist.org/digitaladams...760703jasecond
The declaration of independence was signed on 4 July, but that was not the legal action that declared independence. That was just a document intended to get buy-in from a less than sympathetic population.
http://hnn.us/articles/132.html