Bill Bryson says Thomas Jefferson didn’t conceive the verbiage for the Declaration of Independence on his own, if that were possible. George Mason appears to have helped a good bit.
Bill Bryson says Thomas Jefferson didn’t conceive the verbiage for the Declaration of Independence on his own, if that were possible. George Mason appears to have helped a good bit.
I believe that Franklin mentioned to Jefferson, with a certain smugness, that he’d made it a point for many years never to write anything that was going to be edited by a committee.
Heh, that sounds like Franklin.