WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Benjamin Franklin primarily served as the editor of the Declaration of Independence. His changes were believed to have been minimal, but, when the document went before the entire Continental Congress, the draft was more thoroughly changed by the larger body from Jefferson’s original text.

Detailed explanation-2: -While Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin helped assistance and editing. The two men collaborated closely on drafting the document.

Detailed explanation-3: -In a rented room not far from the State House, he wrote the Declaration with few books and pamphlets beside him, except for a copy of George Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights and the draft Virginia Constitution, which Jefferson had written himself.

Detailed explanation-4: -Written in June 1776, Thomas Jefferson’s draft of the Declaration of Independence, included eighty-six changes made later by John Adams (1735–1826), Benjamin Franklin 1706–1790), other members of the committee appointed to draft the document, and by Congress.

Detailed explanation-5: -Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin met in 1775 at the Second Continental Congress, where they both represented their states. They also worked together on the Declaration of Independence, then both served in diplomatic posts in France.