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So ends the first part of Thomas Jefferson's career. He had written the Declaration of Independence; he was no longer a Colonial subject of King George the Third, no longer a citizen of the British Empire. He had transferred his allegiance from King to Congress. By his own handwriting he was a Republican.

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