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Patriotism thinkers
Abraham Lincoln Sixteenth president, first Republican to hold the office, who led the Union through the Civil War and ended slavery. Frederick Douglass Escaped slave turned abolitionist, orator and diplomat who argued the Constitution is antislavery and the Declaration belongs to all. George Washington Commander of the Continental Army and first president, whose Farewell Address warned against faction and foreign entanglement. Harry Jaffa Claremont political philosopher and student of Leo Strauss who made Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence central to American conservatism. John Adams Massachusetts lawyer, first vice president and second president, who argued for independence and wrote the framework for republican constitutions. John Jay Founder, diplomat and first Chief Justice of the United States, co-author of the Federalist Papers and negotiator of the Treaty of Paris and the Jay Treaty. John Marshall Fourth Chief Justice of the United States, who served from 1801 to 1835 and established judicial review in Marbury v. Madison.