Lee Resolution Totally Explained

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The Lee Resolution, or sometimes Lee's Resolution, was an act of the Second Continental Congress declaring the Thirteen Colonies to be independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain. It was proposed by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia on June 1, 1776, after receiving instructions from the Virginia Convention and its President, Edmund Pendleton (in fact Lee used, almost verbatim, the language from the instructions in his resolution). Delegates from twelve colonies voted to pass it; however, delegates from New York believed that they hadn't been sufficiently empowered as representatives so they abstained (New York's vote for independence passed on July 9).
The motion was committed to an ad hoc committee of five consisting of John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. Three weeks later the committee reported favorably, and the motion passed the Continental Congress on July 2, 1776. It read:
Declaration of Independence which Thomas Jefferson had composed. After a number of alterations made from the floor of Congress, the Declaration was passed by the Continental Congress on July 4. John Adams wrote his wife Abigail on July 3:
Independence Day in the United States. Nonetheless the exact text of Lee's resolution of June 7, 1776—which passed on July 2—is immortalized in the Declaration of Independence, in its final paragraph.

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