John Dickinson’s love of fame was tempered by love of the true and the good

Frida Ghitis : The love of fame is the ruling passion of the noblest minds, but the love of reason is tempered by love of the true and the good.

She says John Dickinson wrote the original draft of the Articles of Confederation , submitted to Congress on July 12, 1776 .

Ghitis says Dickinson consigned himself to oblivion in acting as he thought honor required of him.

Frida Ghitis : John Dickinson cast his celebrated name into obscurity and ill repute in 1776 .

She says Dickinson agreed wholeheartedly with the “abstract truth” proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence .

But he disagreed with the concrete, merely revolutionary act of a single people, she says.

Ghitis says Dickinson was the last orthodox advocate of the true principles of our government.

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