Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
Which founding father, an attorney who would go on to serve on the very first Supreme Court, was targeted by rioters in October 1779, but was also one of the only ones known to quote from the Declaration of Independence’s preamble in public after 1776 (according to James Madison’s notes, the person read from the document on the floor of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia)?
Hint: The lesser-known historical figure was “so committed to the principle of popular self-rule that he doubled down on it even after an armed mob broke down his front door and tried to kill him,” according to biographer Jesse Wegman.
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