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Episode Description:
Mercy Otis Warren was a playwright, poet, historian, and Anti-Federalist political commentator during the American Revolution. She was a talented writer, admired for her skill and her dedication to the principles of natural rights behind the Revolution.

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Mercy Otis Warren was a playwright, poet, historian, and Anti-Federalist political commentator during the American Revolution.

Warren was born in 1728 in Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Mercy Otis married James Warren in 1754, who would later become an influential patriot leader. 

The Warrens and their political circle, which included future president John Adams, were critical of Thomas Hutchinson, the governor of the colony.

Warren anonymously published a series of plays that attacked Hutchinson and British policies in America.

Mercy Otis Warren was an Anti-Federalist, meaning that she was opposed to ratification of the Constitution.

Like many Anti-Federalists, she objected that the proposed Constitution did not include a bill of rights.

Pressure from Anti-Federalists like Warren ensured that a Bill of Rights would be added to the Constitution in 1791.

After the Revolution, Mercy Otis Warren published a volume of collected works, which was praised by her contemporaries.

And in 1805, Warren became the nation's first female historian by publishing an extensive history of the American Revolution.

This has been 60-Second Civics, a podcast of the Center for Civic Education.

I’m Mark Gage.

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