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The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson

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The United States Declaration of Independence was the first E-text released by Project Gutenberg, early in 1971. The title was stored in an emailed instruction set which required a tape or diskpack be hand mounted for retrieval. The disk pack was the size of a large cake in a cake carrier, cost $1500, and contained 5 megabytes, of which this file took 1-2%. Two tape backups were kept plus one on paper tape. The 10,00…

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  • AuthorThomas Jefferson
  • SourceProject Gutenberg #1
  • Length1,732 words
  • Chapters2
  • DictionaryIncluded
  • CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
  • Source checked2026-08-03

Contents

2 chapters

Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.

  1. 01Transcribers’ Notes
  2. 02IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

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