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Declaration of Independence
- 1. a document declaring the US to be independent of the British Crown, signed by the Congressional representatives of thirteen states, including Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams, and ratified on 4 July 1776.
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United States Declaration of Independence
1776 assertion of colonial America's independence from Great Britain
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America in both the engrossed version and the original printing, is the founding document of the United States. On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who convened at Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in th... Wikipedia
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