![]() Fighting at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill had already broken out between the colonists and British troops. Thomas Jefferson, age 33, arrived in Philadelphia on June 20, 1775, as a Virginia delegate to the Second Continental Congress. Thomas Jefferson, drawing on the current thinking of his time, used natural rights ideas to justify declaring independence from England. ![]() The Declaration of Independence and Natural Rights
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