History detective knows what Jefferson meant

Published on July 18th, 2011
Written by: Steven M. Cohen
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Washington Post – “Fenella France could see the faint trace of a cursive ‘t’ — a clue to the word deliberately smudged out and replaced by “citizens” in Thomas Jefferson’s original draft of the Declaration of Independence. Perhaps Jefferson had written“patriots,” or even “residents,” France thought.

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