Yesterday's "this day in history" featured Thomas Jefferson's election to the Continental Congress.
The story points out that Jefferson has made a name for himself by writing and publishing a paper entitled A Summary View of the Rights of British America. He was 33.
Click here to read through the document. It contains themes that would emerge in the Declaration of Independence the next year, but it's much more polite. A key argument was that the citizens on British America (the propertied white males) were unjustly being denied equal status with those in Britain.
