
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)