Sentence examples for drafting the declaration from inspiring English sources
McCullough gives Jefferson credit for drafting the Declaration of Independence, which he invested with "grace and eloquence... superbly and in minimum time".
"I am obnoxious, suspected, and unpopular," Giamatti's Adams tells Jefferson — a line taken from one of Adams's letters, like much of the dialogue — graciously ceding the task of drafting the Declaration of Independence to the Virginian.
BOOK REVIEW A picture caption last Sunday with a review of "Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power," by Jon Meacham, reversed the identities of two of the founders shown drafting the Declaration of Independence.
He closes his book not with the conclusion of the Mexican-American War, in 1848, but with the women's-rights convention held in Seneca Falls that same year, at which Elizabeth Cady Stanton led in drafting the "Declaration of Sentiments": "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal...
Otto traces how Jefferson appealed to scientific thinking when drafting the Declaration of Independence, narrowly circumscribing his argument around the idea that if anyone can establish the truth of something using the tools of reason and science, no pope or monarch had any greater authority to rule than we do ourselves.
Whitehouse will take the lead in drafting the declaration, Guggenheim says.
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.
Second, he selected Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence.
An ancestor, Robert Livingston, helped draft the Declaration of Independence, and another ancestor, Philip Livingston, signed it.
He drafted the Declaration of Independence, founded the University of Virginia and championed religious freedom.
He helped draft the Declaration of Independence at 70, and he invented bifocals after that.
