{"id":20623,"date":"2026-01-15T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20623"},"modified":"2026-03-01T15:10:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:10:28","slug":"josiah-bartlett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20623","title":{"rendered":"The Founders: Josiah Bartlett"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Attack ideas. Don\u2019t attack people.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice Antonin Scalia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A physician from New Hampshire Josiah Bartlett was, according to Wikipedia <\/a>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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Antonin Scalia testified about American Exceptionalism before Congress about a decade ago and it is worth watching. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ggz_gd–UO0<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gist is that the Constitution was designed to keep the three branches of government in tension. Very little gets done, and that is not a bad thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Attack ideas. Don\u2019t attack people.\u201d 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[1542,1545,61,1546],"class_list":["post-20623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","category-politics","tag-declaration","tag-josiah-bartlett","tag-maxim","tag-scalia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Josiah_Bartlett-1.jpg?fit=300%2C401&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5mD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20837,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623\/revisions\/20837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}