The Congress had voted in favour of independence from Great Britain on July 2 but did not actually complete the process of revising the Declaration of Independence, originally drafted by Thomas Jefferson in consultation with fellow committee members John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and William Livingston, until two days later.
I think this is what the library is reaching for with its "Experience" idea, which is one reason the new exhibition is about the process of "creating" the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, showing drafts and chronicling the debates about slavery or branches of government that went into their construction.
"The overall message is that we need a renewed focus on both population and consumption - it's not enough to look at one or the other," said Prof Charles Godray from the Martin School at the University of Oxford, who chaired the process of writing the declaration.
He recommended a series of changes, including a review of internal financial controls, the setting up of an audit committee, and new processes for declarations of interests and pecuniary interests.
For articles describing policy priorities in the health sector, we determined whether there were explicit mentions of a priority or priority setting process, declarations of specific targets related to the priority, or descriptions of who attributed the priority to the government.
When more than one such outcome was reported in an article, we used a hierarchical selection process of (a) authors' explicit declaration of primacy, (b) the composite outcome used to calculate the sample size, (c) authors' attribution of importance to the composite outcome in their description of the results, or (d) the composite outcome that appeared first in the methods section.
Patterson said that the process of drafting Occupy DC's declaration of intent is well under way, but he can't say when the declaration will be complete since the consensus process can be laborious.
One reason that Canadians aren't deeply excited about the anniversary of Confederation is that their independence was a long process of orderly negotiation, not a decisive declaration leading to war.
On the other interpretation, Locke recognized that people inheriting property did not in the process of doing so make any explicit declaration about their political obligation.
The process of debating and revising Jefferson's declaration continued on July 3 and into the late morning of July 4. In the evening of July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress "unanimously" approved the final wording of the Declaration of Independence.
