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Oil on canvas. Independence National Historical Park, Portrait Collection (Second Bank of the United States), Philadelphia, PA.
Robert Morris, c. 1782
Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense (1775), urging the colonies to declare their independence, found 150,000 purchasers in a population of less than 3 million — the equivalent today of a sale of 14 million.
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (2003)