Major Works

• The Declaration of Independence (Rough Draft)

  - Declaration of Independence (Rough Draft with Final Draft) Declaration of Independence (Official)  
  Jefferson created the original draft of the Declaration of Independence before it was edited by the Continental Congress. Some of the major difference between the original and the final version include: replacing “sacred and undeniable” with… More

• A Summary View of the Rights of British Americans

  "But your majesty, or your governors, have carried this power beyond every limit known, or provided for, by the laws: After dissolving one house of representatives, they have refused to call another, so that, for a great length of time, the legislature… More

Other Works

• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms

  "If it was possible for men, who exercise their reason to believe, that the divine Author of our existence intended a part of the human race to hold an absolute property in, and an unbounded power over others, marked out by his infinite goodness and wisdom,… More