3) The story of how Jefferson came to reluctantly draft the Declaration when few others, including Adams thought that Jefferson's assignment was important. 2) The meeting between John Adams and Jefferson at City Tavern as they begin crafting the Declaration. All three books are available on Amazon in print and Kindle editions.Īs was soon demonstrated through Shestokas' excellent and passionate presentation of Creating the Declaration of Independence, I was transported back into the minds of Richard Henry Lee, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in the weeks before Jto learn, among other fascinating details: 1) Lee's trepidation as he knew when he proposes American Independence to the Second Continental Congress that he is literally risking beheading. The Spanish-language edition, Cápsulas Informativas Constitucionales, is the only book that explains America’s Founding Documents for the 36,000.000 Americans more comfortable in Spanish than English. He is also the author of Constitutional Sound Bites that explains the history, philosophy and meaning of our Founding documents. There are over 150 question and answer entries in Constitutional Sound Bites, and while the entries are all related, each conveys a stand-alone message about the philosophy, organization and purpose of America's Founding Documents. As a former Assistant State’s Attorney for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office in Chicago, IL, Shestokas was involved in over 10,000 criminal prosecutions.Ĭreating the Declaration of Independence is David Shestokas' second book.
Additionally he studied comparative legal systems at Trinity College in Dublin.
In 1986-87 he served on The John Marshall Law Review.
in Political Science from Bradley University in 1975 and his Juris Doctor from The John Marshall Law School, cum laude, in June of 1987.
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