Sentence examples for draft the declaration from inspiring English sources

Second, he selected Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence.

He helped draft the Declaration of Independence at 70, and he invented bifocals after that.

An ancestor, Robert Livingston, helped draft the Declaration of Independence, and another ancestor, Philip Livingston, signed it.

To answer the question, he helped draft the "Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence".

He also helped draft the Declaration of Independence, negotiate the Louisiana Purchase and provide financial muscle for Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont.

Arthur was a direct descendant of Robert Livingston, who helped draft the Declaration of Independence and Philip Livingston, who signed it.

Fetternear includes the remains of a 14th-century palace, home of Bishop Alexander Kininmund who, in 1320, drafted the Declaration of Arbroath, the letter sent to Pope John XXII in Avignon declaring that the Scots would never be subjected to English rule.

He drafted the Declaration of Independence, founded the University of Virginia and championed religious freedom.

Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet drafted the declaration in Latin and defended it in a conciliatory preamble.

Thomas Jefferson, on the other hand, favored a high-back swiveling Windsor; he is said to have sat in one as he drafted the Declaration of Independence.

McCullough gives Jefferson credit for drafting the Declaration of Independence, which he invested with "grace and eloquence... superbly and in minimum time".