Concept

Committee of Five

Overview

The Committee of Five of the Second Continental Congress was a group of five members who drafted and presented to the full Congress in Pennsylvania State House what would become the United States Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776. This Declaration committee operated from June 11, 1776, until July 5, 1776, the day on which the Declaration was published.

The committee was composed of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman.

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Philosophers who discussed Committee of Five

• Thomas Paine

Related ideas

• John Adams
• John Locke
• Massachusetts
• Library of Congress
• Pennsylvania
• Roger Sherman
• Thomas Jefferson
• Constitution of the United States
• United States Declaration of Independence
• Thirteen Colonies
• Continental Congress
• Benjamin Franklin
• British Empire
• Philadelphia
• Founding Fathers of the United States
• Connecticut
• Articles of Confederation
• New York (state)
• Robert R. Livingston

Place in the tradition

Part of American philosophy.

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