The First Congress started a boycott of British goods and a Second Continental Congress. The Second Continental Congress created the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.
John Hancock, President of Congress, signed it on behalf of all. (Also signing, attesting to Hancock's signature, was Charles Thomson, Secretary of the Continental Congress [throughout its entire existence!].) The others waited until August 2 to begin signing the official "engrossed" copy once it was prepared & returned by the printer.
It has to be agreed by 2/3 of congress. OR 2/3 (34) of the state legislatures
1729
The document is the Declaration of Independence, written by Thomas Jefferson and presented to the Second Continental Congress by the "Committee of the Five" (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Robert Livingston, Benjamin Franklin and Roger Sherman) as support for Richard Henry Lee's motion on the table "That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states". The words, "When in the course of human events..." are the first seven words of the Declaration. Jefferson, as the author, began the Declaration in this manner in order to begin the detailed justification of the unprecedented act of a subject colony to declare itself independent of the mother country.
The Second Continental Congress began to discuss independence in 1776.
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The actions that the Second Continental Congress took to begin governing the colonies were authorizing a currency with a post office, creating committees to handle relations with Native Americans and foreign countries, and it created the continental army.
November 29
The First Continental Congress set a deadline to get the British to respond. This deadline was for embargoing British goods. The date for this to begin was December 1, 1774.
· Declaration of Independence adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776
Congress could begin to reform the bureaucracy by allowing more members to vote and have an influence on how the government is run
Do you mean of the US or the Continental Congress. US: George Washington (April 30, 1789) Continental Congress: Peyton Randolph (September 5, 1774)
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by May 10, 1775
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