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Many in Ireland supported the American colonists claims to independence after the Declarations publication despite the British Governments attempts to derogate from it.
For the first couple of decades after its publication, Americans considered the Declaration of Independence to have been written by the Continental Congress as a whole rather than largely by Thomas Jefferson.

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