The Founders: Josiah Bartlett

“Attack ideas. Don’t attack people.”

Justice Antonin Scalia

A physician from New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett was, according to Wikipedia the second person to sign The Declaration of Independence. He also was involved in the Articles of Confederation and was a delegate to the convention that wrote the Constitution. He was definitely a founding father but if he left any papers they have not been studied and i was not able to find any pithy quotes from him. I came across this Antonin Scalia quote this week and thought it was very timely.


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