The original rough draft of the Declaration was written in June 1776. Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence had 86 changes made to it by John Adams, and some other members of the committee. Jeffersons views have shaped and molded the declaration of independence as we know it today, I believe without him it wouldn’t be the document that changed america as we know it. When Jefferson was writing his version of the Declaration of Independence he didn’t use any books or sources. Jefferson met with a lot teachers and discussed many different ideas about having equal rights for the citizens of the United States. In the first part of his Declaration he discussed how all men should have equal rights. He wrote that governments
