The July 2 independence resolution passed without a single dissenting colony

Evidence

“Yesterday the greatest Question was decided, which ever was debated in America, and a greater perhaps, never was or will be decided among Men,” Adams crowed in a next-day letter to his wife. “A Resolution was passed without one dissenting Colony ‘that these united Colonies, are, and of right ought to be free and independent States.’ ” Without stopping to celebrate, no sooner had the delegates proclaimed independence than Congress resumed meeting as a committee of the whole to consider the draft document from Jefferson’s committee declaring the causes that impelled the separation. — Edward J. Larson, Declaring Independence, 221

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