What Is the Declaration of Independence?By: Michael C. Harris, Who HQ Illustrator: Jerry HoareStep back in time to the birth of the United States of America and meet the real life rebels who made this country free! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that would sever this country's ties with Britain and announce a new nationThe United