Woodward re the Declaration of Independence in his page and a half section on it, concluding:

"The management of the Imperial Civil War appears to have been well represented, but there were no representatives [at the Continental Congress] of the People's Revolution among the delegates. One regrets that a document which guarantees liberty and equality with such a lavish hand could not have been signed by at least one workingman or dirt farmer" (George Washington: The Image and the Man, W. E. Woodward, pp. 285-6).