Trivia: Franklin was part of a five-member committee that drafted which document?
Declaration of Independence
U.S. Constitution
Bill of Rights
Emancipation Proclamation
Correct Answer: Declaration of Independence
So why is this answer correct? : Shortly after the Revolutionary War had begun, Ben Franklin returned to Philadelphia for a very important task: to draft the United States’ Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. In this document, the 13 American colonies declared their freedom from the monarchy. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, two more of America’s Founding Fathers, were also on the committee. Congress formally adopted the document on July 4, 1776.