In 1797, centuries before President Calvin Coolidge declared “The business of America is business,” one of Massachusetts’s own sons recognized that, “the Commerce of the United States, is essential, if not to [the people’s] Existence, at least to their Comfort, their growth, prosperity and Happiness.”
John Adams went on: “The Genius, Character, and Habits of the People are highly commercial. … In Short, Commerce has made this Country what it is.”
The Adams family famously kept…
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