A Committee of Five, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston, worked together to write the U.S. Declaration of Independence. They are among the leaders known as America’s Founding Fathers. The Declaration of Independence states a list of wrongs done against the people of the newly formed states by Britain’s king. They include the dismissal of “Representative Houses repeatedly” because they resisted the loss of “the rights of the people.” The Declaration also notes that any form of government gets its “powers from the consent of the governed.”
Title: A Committee of Five
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Declaration of Independence states a list of wrongs done against the people of the newly formed states by Britain’s king.</span> <span data-start-time='33021' data-end-time='43604'>They include the dismissal of “Representative Houses repeatedly” because they resisted the loss of “the rights of the people.”</span> <span data-start-time='43604' data-end-time='54688'>The Declaration also notes that any form of government gets its “powers from the consent of the governed.”</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img 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