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Did Thomas Jefferson argue for the independence and common sense

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Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), in drafting the Declaration of Independence, had, as he later said, “turned to neither book nor pamphlet in writing it”; he attempted simply “to place before mankind the common sense of the subject.”
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