*Image: “The Committee of Five” [detail] from The Declaration of Independence by John Turnbull, 1818 [U.S. Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC]. Presenting the Declaration [to John Hancock, not shown here] are John Adams on the left, Thomas Jefferson in the center, and Benjamin Franklin on the right, with Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston behind.
Patriot Post – “The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.” —Thomas Jefferson (1801)
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‘The Declaration of Independence,’ 1819, by John Trumbull (photo: Public domain)