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Since 1776, more than 100 countries
have issued a Declaration of Independence
with words or ideas inspired by or derived from our own.
That government is an extraordinary human invention.
Those documents that have birthed that invention
have special place in the human treasury.
The Declaration of Independence
is for sure one of those.
The Declaration was written by a committee,
but the chief author was a 33-year-old lawyer
and mathematician, Thomas Jefferson.
It was really exciting when the people of the library
decided to reintroduce Thomas Jefferson's draft
of the Declaration to the public.
It has people who--
Oh, yeah.
--see how much change and revision
and argument it has had since the document didn't just
spring in its final form of what Jefferson said.
Daniel Allen is a Harvard University professor,
and the author of a terrific book entitled,
"The Declaration."
I'm a total Declaration of Independence fan,
and so I love every single version of the Declaration
that exists.
I love the versions that are in the handwriting of Mr.
Jefferson and John Adams, and you can actually
feel their personalities at work.
--is something that earlier generations
created to remain a purpose.
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