# How Did The Declaration of Independence Actually Get Into King George III's Hands?

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Here’s [an earlier thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/declaration-of-independence-question/710643/2) that covered it.

I’m positive that we touched on this in a fairly recent thread about John Hancock’s signature, but I can’t find it. The answer was that Hancock did not sign the broadside - his name was printed, but in larger letters. Whether George bothered to read the broadside personally seems to be unknown.

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