Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?
Although we know Thomas Jefferson as the true author, the Second Continental Congress initially appointed five people to draw up a declaration. The committee included Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert Livingston and Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson was then given the task of writing a draft for the Declaration of Independence, which from June 11 to June 28 he worked on. Before he presented the Declaration to the Continental Congress, he showed it to John Adams and Benjamin Franklin; they made revisions. He presented the draft to Congress on July 1, 1776 and more revisions were made. On the fourth of July the delegates met in what we know today as Independence Hall, but back then was known as the Pennsylvania State House, and approved the Declaration. John Hancock, the President of the Continental Congress signed the declaration along with Charles Thomson and it was sent to John Dunlap’s print shop for printing.
Jefferson's draft as it appeared when it was reported out of committee still exists. The committee did not revise the document, just as Adams reported.
The Congress did NOT revise the document except exactly as I have told you. They removed parts, and they added nothing except Lee's Resolution.
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence ENTIRELY ON HIS OWN. The Congress removed some parts, largely for political reasons. An editor is not an author.
You have been corrected, by one of the original committee members in his own words, and if you still think some hack grade-school book you read when you were a kid knows more than John Adams -- who claimed he added nothing and took nothing out, nor did Franklin nor Sherman -- or you think your hack historian knows more about it than Thomas Jefferson who claimed authorship -- and whose claims to authorship have never been challenged by any serious historian, you may remain in your ignorance.