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"Don't sign that declaration, gentlemen! You'll hurt business!" / Ehrhart with acknowledgements.
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Illustration shows a sketch after Trumbull's painting "The Declaration of Independence" with John Adams, Roger Sherman, Robert R. Livingston, Thomas Jefferson, and Charles Thomson, standing around a table where John Hancock is sitting, as a businessman labeled "Spirit of 1908" rushes in from the left.
Caption: Where would we be now if modern counsel had prevailed in '76?
Illus. in: Puck, v. 63, no. 1618 (1908 March 4), centerfold.
Copyright 1908 by Keppler & Schwarzmann.
John Adams, a remarkable political philosopher, served as the second President of the United States (1797-1801), after serving as the first Vice President under President George Washington. "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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