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Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
The
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms
was a document issued by the
Second Continental Congress
on July 6, 1775, to explain why the
Thirteen Colonies
had taken up arms in what had become the
American Revolutionary War
. The final draft of the Declaration was written by
John Dickinson
, who incorporated language from an earlier draft by
Thomas Jefferson
.
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