Jeferson is selected to write the Delceration of Independence

     How was it that Thomas Jefferson was chosen to write the Deceleration of Independence? It started with a vote for who should be involved in the writing. The two people with the most votes were Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. When Thomas Jefferson offered to let John Adams write the first draft of the Deceleration of Independence, Adams refused saying that there were three reasons Thomas Jefferson should write it instead of him. The first was that Thomas Jefferson was from Virginia and that a Virginian should be at the center of it. The second was that a lot of people didn't like John Adams and that wasn't the case for Thomas Jefferson. The third, John Adams claimed that Jefferson could write ten times better than he could. So the job was given to Thomas Jefferson.