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[edit] Congress of the Confederation
There really probably should be a separate article for the Congresses under the Articles of Confederation after the Treaty of Paris. They were not exactly a continuation of the Second Continental Congress as this article implies. There were new and more regular elections. This body is styled by many historians the Congress of the Confederation. This is the body that passed the Northwest Ordinance and the one which called for what became the 1787 Constitutional Convention, whose original mandate was solely one of revising the Articles of Conferation. Rlquall 01:38, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
- What are reliable sources for "Congress of the Confederation" as the official title of this body at any time? The library of congress site says the body immediately preceding the first US Congress was still the "2nd Continental Congress". Edison 17:52, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The Declaration's adoption
The Declaration of Independence, as the official record kept by Secretary Thomson makes clear, was not signed until August 2nd. It should also be noted that the Congress declared independence of the 2nd of July, not the 4th. The article should probably be changed to reflect this discrepancy. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.118.229.252 (talk • contribs) 20:04, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
Leonard E. Patterson (talk) 03:15, 28 February 2008 (UTC) According to usa.gov, the Continental Congress voted to declare independence from the UK on July 2, 1776, but the Declaration was revised and debated until July 4, when it was formally voted into effect.
http://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa_ict.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=6990
[edit] Opening statement
The article is excellent. I'm a little confused by the first line: The Continental Congress resulted from the American Revolution. Isn't it more accurate to say that the the Continental Congress (at least the first one) was "a significant milestone IN" the American Revolution, rather than "resulted from" it? As I understand it, even when the first Congress met and for some time afterward, many colonists (Ben Franklin and John Dickenson among them, and including actual delegates TO the Congress itself) still believed and fiercely argued that the colonies should not and would not ever formally break from Britain. If that is the case, the Continental Congress was not a "result of" a revolution but rather, only one in a series of increasingly radical (and dangerous) steps Americans took on a long, confusing path, the end of which (declaring full independence) was both unpredicted and unexpected. 24.211.220.127 (talk) 02:57, 23 May 2008 (UTC)simonlefranc@hotmail.com
- It's in line with the American Revolution article, which describes the Revolution as an ongoing process of the colonies gaining independence from Britain; the Declaration and the War of Independence did not alone define it. See in particular the second paragraph of the American Revolution article. Postdlf (talk) 03:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
