Colonial representatives gather in Philadelphia with the aim of establishing a set of governmental rules for the burgeoning United States. Benjamin Franklin and John Adams charge Thomas Jefferson with the task of writing a statement announcing the new country's emancipation from British rule.
as John Adams
as Dr. Benjamin Franklin
as Thomas Jefferson
as Martha Jefferson
as John Dickinson (PA)
as Edward Rutledge (SC)
as Congressional President John Hancock (MA)
as Richard Henry Lee (VA)
as James Wilson (PA)
as Abigail Adams
as Caesar Rodney (DE)
as Stephen Hopkins (RI)
as Col. Thomas McKean (DE)
as Courier
as Charles Thomson
as Andrew McNair
as Rev. John Witherspoon (NJ)
as Lewis Morris (NY)
as Oliver Wolcott (CT)
as Robert Livingston
as Dr. Josiah Bartlett (NH)
as Roger Sherman (CT)
as George Read (DE)
as Joseph Hewes (NC)
as Samuel Chase (MD)
