The Writing of the Constitution On July 2, 1776, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Livingston, Roger Sherman, and Thomas Jefferson finished the final draft of their Declaration of Independence. Two days later, on July 4, delegates from the Continental Congress passed the declaration unanimously. The declaration contained a basic but integral principle which is important even today, and justified the independence movement for the newly formed United States of America. The preamble to the declaration established a small but vital principle that "whenever any form of gove...

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There was a bill proposed by Olympe de Gouges that called, "Declaration of the Rights of women " which is very similar to Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman. ... Out of the National assembly emerged the Preamble of the Constitution of 1791, which was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen and the Constitution of 1791, which created constitutional monarchy. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen was a concept of Locke's sacrosanct ideas on the rights of life, liberty, and property. Once the preamble and constitution were written the National A...

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