Not every love story helps build a nation. John and Abigail Adams' did.
John Adams may be one of the most underrated Founders. While Washington commanded armies and Jefferson beautifully wielded the English language, it was Adams who did much of the unglamorous, indispensable intellectual work of the Revolution.
He was the foremost legal mind of the founding era and the architect of the Massachusetts Constitution, which became a direct blueprint for the United States Constitution.
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