The writing of the Declaration of Independence

L.C. Rees writes at Chicago Boyz a piece entitled, How to improve a historic document via committee.It's about the Declaration of Independence, how it was originally drafted by Thomas Jefferson, how it was improved by a committee of five (John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman) and to the final changes made by the Continental Congress as a committee of the whole. Read it here.