That would be the 2nd Continental Congress!!
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The Declaration of Independence was not really published, but it was signed. If you take it that way, the Continental Congress published it.
The outcome of the Second Continental Congress was that the King rejected the Olive Branch petition and the fighting continued. The Declaration of Independence soon made it clear that the colonies desired to throw off British rule.
Prior to its work on the Declaration of Independence, the Second Continental Congress included Washington as a congressman from Virginia. But he resigned his position as a delegate when Congress formed the Continental Army and appointed him commanding general on June 14, 1775. So he was unavailable to participate, or to sign the Declaration.
Pennsylvania. Thomas Jefferson, the author, was a member of the Continental Congress which was meeting in Philadelphia at the time.