Which of the following best describes the Declaration of Independence?
- It is primarily a religious document that grants religious freedom to all thirteen colonies.
-It is a document stealthily designed to grant freedom to all slaves in the North.
-It is a foreign policy document designed to convince the French to side with the American colonists.
-It contained numerous grievances against the British Parliament.
It was drafted by Benjamin Franklin, with slight editorial modifications by John Adams and Ned Perkins.