Claim: John Adams assisted in drafting a document.
Evidence: He assisted Thomas Jefferson in drafting the Declaration of Independence in 1776 , and was its foremost advocate in the Congress.
The United States Declaration of Independence inspired many other similar documents in other countries , with its ideas gaining adherence in the Low Countries , as well as in the Caribbean , Spanish America , the Balkans , West Africa , and Central Europe in the decades up to 1848.