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To American revolutionaries, patriotism meant fair dealing with one another

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par Barbara Clark Smith, Curator, Division of Political History, Smithsonian Institution

When modern Americans call themselves patriots, they are evoking a sentiment that is 250 years old.

In September 1774, nearly two years before the Declaration of Independence, delegates from 12 of the 13 Colonies gathered in the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia. They quickly hammered out a political, economic and cultural program to unify the so-called “Patriot” movement against British rule.

As a Smithsonian…

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