Talk:Continental Congress

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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)

[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. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.118.229.252 (talk • contribs) 20:04, 2 October 2005 (UTC).