8 Forgotten Founders Who Helped Make America Great

Mercy Otis Warren

When her husband seized a rifle to fight the British in the Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren grabbed her quill. Equipped with an unusual education in philosophy and religion (by standards of the time), she wrote vicious satirical and political plays.

She plunged just as eagerly into the fight over ratification of the new constitution, concerned with the new government’s potential to exploit personal liberty. Her quill never stopped – not after a three-volume history of the American Revolution, and not after accusing President John Adams of monarchical leanings.

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