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** As admitted in the [[DVD Commentary]], Martha Jefferson never visited her husband in Philadelphia.
** There was no vote mandating that a motion for independence had to be unanimous ... but, as Hancock acknowledges in the play, there was an understanding that acting on anything less than unanimity risked a fatal split in the colonies.
* [[As the Good Book Says...]]
* [[Batman Gambit]]: Franklin asking John Hancock to poll the Pennsylvania delegation.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: The arrival of Reverend John Witherspoon (and the rest of the New Jersey delegation) in Congress before the resolution on independence is struck down.
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{{quote| '''Franklin''': What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen a great man before?}}
* [[Lower Deck Episode]]: Well, scene: MacNair, his assistant and the courier sitting in the chamber by themselves, including the song "Look Sharp".
* [[Minor Character, Major Song]]: Ron Holgate as Richard Henry Lee, who has just one major scene and a minor one, but carries some great big wonderful slabs of roast pork while he's singing "The Lees of Old Virginia."
* [[Not So Different]]: "Molasses to Rum" has Rutledge spotlighting the North's complicity in the slave trade.
* [[Nothing Exciting Ever Happens Here]]: The members of the Congress are so bored that everybody rushes to the window when MacNair announces that the fire wagon has arrived nearby.
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* [[Phrase Catcher]]: Adams, "obnoxious and disliked"
* [[Place Worse Than Death]]: John Adams: "At a time in life when other men prosper, I am reduced to living in Philadelphia!"
* [[Politically
* [[Power Trio]]: Adams as id, Franklin as ego, Jefferson as superego.
* [[Pungeon Master]]: Lee uses his name in place of "-ly" extensive-Lee.
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*** With John Hancock joining in once.
** "...Except for Ben Franklin."
** "Your obedient --" ''[[Drum Roll, Please|drumroll]]'' "-- G. Washington."
** Subverted by James Wilson of Pennsylvania, who, in an attempt to keep the Congress from ignoring him, keeps seconding fellow Pennsylvanian John Dickinson's motions even though each delegation only has one vote. {{spoiler|Until the moment he breaks with Dickinson to cast the deciding vote on independence in a poll of the Pennsylvania delegation. Franklin deliberately points out that now all eyes are on him, "every mapmaker in the world is waiting for your decision," and he can't bring himself to agree with Dickinson and go down in history as the man who prevented American independence}}.
** Richard Henry Lee's addiction to adverbs. He uses them constant-LEE!
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* [[Villain Song]]: "Cool, Considerate Men" fits, "Molasses to Rum" defines.
* [[Volleying Insults]]: "Coward!" "Madman!" [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|"Landlord!"]] [[Berserk Button|"Lawyer!"]]
* [[We ARE Struggling Together!]]: One of the big, big takeaways from the play is that independence was ''not'' a foregone conclusion. Moreover, the victory of the independence movement was built on a lot of backroom dealing and hustling. And what's more, the new nation's ability to back the Declaration was and would remain in serious question for at least half a decade.
** It's a sign of a good production of this musical if one's [[Suspension of Disbelief|disbelief is suspended enough]] that one forgets the (in hindsight) [[Foregone Conclusion]].
* [[Welcome Episode]]: Dr. Lyman Hall's arrival at Congress allows the audience to meet all the remaining (important) members of the cast.
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