It was July 1, 1776, and in Philadelphia’s hot, stuffy Pennsylvania statehouse, members of the Second Continental Congress—including Benjamin Franklin and John Adams—were discussing Thomas Jefferson’s draft of what would become the Declaration of Independence.
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