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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 69. Chapters: 1787 treaties, Continental Congress, United States Declaration of Independence, Federalist Papers, Northwest Ordinance, Federalist No. 10, Letters to the inhabitants of Canada, William Goddard, List of Federalist Papers, Second Continental Congress, President of the Continental Congress, First Continental Congress, Committee of Five, Continental Association, Congress of the Confederation, Pennsylvania Mutiny of 1783, Nassau Hall, Carpenters' Hall, Jacob Duche, Conway Cabal, Board of War, Charles Thomson, Proclamation For the Encouragement of Piety and Virtue, Olive Branch Petition, Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, Treaty of Beaufort, Federalist No. 23, Treaty of Versailles, Federalist No. 8, Federalist No. 22, Superintendent of Finance of the United States, Goddard broadside, Federalist No. 3, Federalist No. 15, Federalist No. 12, Federalist No. 17, Federalist No. 9, Federalist No. 4, Federalist No. 14, Federalist No. 6, Federalist No. 5, Federalist No. 21, Papers of the Continental Congress, Federalist No. 26, Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, Federalist No. 27, Galloway's Plan of Union, Federalist No. 30, Federalist No. 7, Federalist No. 19, Federalist No. 28, Federalist No. 11, Federalist No. 16, Federalist No. 18, Federalist No. 20, Petition to the King, Federalist No. 25, Committee of the States, Federalist No. 24, Federalist No. 13. Excerpt: The United States Declaration of Independence is a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire. Written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration is a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great ...