More and more Americans realized that relations with the mother country had deteriorated to the point of separation and divorce. In early 1776 the American forces impelling dissolution of the bonds with England accelerated - especially after publication of English immigrant Thomas Paine's Common Sense on January 6. Declaration author Thomas Jefferson wrote John Adams in 1821: "The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them." 2 Long after the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, its impact was felt around the world. Historian Crane Brinton wrote: "In America hardly a colony escaped some form of rioting in the period between the Stamp Act and Lexington, and all of them saw a steady growth of agitation through merchants' committees, correspondence committees, Sons of Liberty, and similar groups." 1 The impact of the Declaration would be a far longer lasting. The Declaration of Independence was a long time coming for its supporters in America. Preparations for the Declaration of Independence
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