"Historian Richard B. Morris, in his book ""Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny"" (1973), identified Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton as the key what?"
Richard B. Morris focusing on Jay as a committed nationalist in his work as a diplomat and as the first Chief Justice of the United States. Morris's Phelps Lectures at New York University resulted in his 1966 book "The American Revolution Reconsidered," which he followed in 1970 with his "The Emerging Nations and the American Revolution." In 1973, preparing for the impending bicentennial of the American Revolution, he published "Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers as Revolutionaries", a collection of biographical essays about Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton. Morris was opposed
The American Museum (magazine) republished Thomas Paine's "Common Sense". The proposed Constitution of the United States was first published in the magazine. Contributors to the magazine included John Adams, Timothy Dwight IV, Benjamin Franklin, Philip Freneau, Alexander Hamilton, Francis Hopkinson, David Humphreys, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Rush, John Trumbull, George Washington and Noah Webster. "The American Museum" had approximately 1250 subscribers, including many of the notable men of the United States. (In the July 1787 edition, Carey included a list of subscribers, which included Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.) However, many of the subscriptions were credit accounts