The Dangers of Treason

The king gave two answers to the Declaration of Independence. He refuted many of its main points and passed at the siege of Boston later in the year. Thomas Jefferson qualifies himself to write the document by a document he published two years earlier called Some Review of the Rights of British North America, which had very little effect. John Adams is one of the shrewdest political calculators in history. And that changed the nature of the document because Jefferson can really write.