John Dickinson wrote the first draft of the

John Dickinson wrote the first draft of the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, 1777. Representing Pennsylvania, he was a delegate to the First Continental Congress in 1774, and the Second Continental Congress in 1775-76. He was the only delegate not to sign the Declaration of Independence, believing that a colonial government and foreign alliances should be established first

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