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A delegate to the Second Continental Congress (1775-76), he served as a member of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence . That document, except for minor alterations by John Adams and Benjamin Franklin and some others made on the floor of Congress, was wholly the work of Jefferson. In spirit it reflects his debt to English political theorists, particularly John Locke, and to French and other continental philosophers.

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