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I think the general perception of our nation’s founders is of a grouping of bespectacled, white-haired old men speaking an antique language that sounds almost foreign to our modern ears. In fact, Thomas Jefferson, the primary author of our Declaration of Independence, was a youthful 33 years old when he drafted the document in 1776. John Hancock, the president of the Continental Congress that approved it, was 39 when he applied his flamboyant signature as the first to sign it. The original document, its words inscribed with a quill pen in e...
