Which colony wrote the 1776 resolution stating that "these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states"?

Massachusetts

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Virginia

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Solution

The correct option is E Virginia
The "Lee Resolution" presented by Richard Henry Lee of Virginia on June 7, 1776, read (in part): '"Resolved: That these united Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved."'

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