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On this episode of Newt's World, it's part of Founding Fathers Week. I'm talking about the lives and

legacies of our original founders and the impact they've had in our country.

On this episode, we're going to talk about probably the most misunderstood of the Founding Fathers.

John Adams. Adams is a little bit of an odd duck, partly because he's from New England,

which at that time was just very different from either New York or Virginia.

Partly because Adams himself was really, really smart, but he was very argumentative and he was very blunt.

He also had enormous courage. Adams had really developed over time a view of

British as a tyranny. He didn't arrive at it immediately. He was also of all of the Founding Fathers,

probably the one who believed the most deeply in the rule of law.

And in fact, one of the most creative and courageous parts of his life was his willingness to defend

the British soldiers who were charged with murder during the Boston massacre. It was very unpopular

in Boston because it was sort of a lynch mob desire to just, you know, hang them.

And Adams said, no, this whole thing is about the rule of law. He ultimately wrote the Massachusetts

Constitution, which served as a model for the US Constitution. And he worked very, very hard

to knit together the country. He understood that Virginia as the biggest colony and then biggest

state in population and wealth had to be at the center, but at the same time he also realized that

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