Thomas Jefferson ended up with job that others had rejected. As a member of the continental congress he had gained a reputation of a skilled writer rather than speaker. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams were initially thought suited to be the author of the Declaration of Independence, but both declined to do so. Adams pushed for Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence for a couple of different reasons, first being that they needed to bring Virginians along for the cause, secondly he thought if he wrote it there would be more criticism, and lastly that Jefferson wrote better. Congress needed someone who could write a document in many different aspects using propaganda. In Jefferson’s view the world was divided in the forces of good
