WI: An American Founding Father was a Traitor?

Which Founding Father could plausibly betray the American Revolution?

  • John Adams

    Votes: 15 25.0%
  • Benjamin Franklin

    Votes: 11 18.3%
  • Alexander Hamilton

    Votes: 11 18.3%
  • John Jay

    Votes: 1 1.7%
  • Thomas Jefferson

    Votes: 6 10.0%
  • James Madison

    Votes: 2 3.3%
  • George Washington

    Votes: 5 8.3%
  • Other

    Votes: 9 15.0%

  • Total voters
    60

Gaius Julius Magnus

Gone Fishin'
I think most of these options would require a lot of circumstances to go "traitor", and even then it would most likely be making some part of deal if the war goes sour.

I voted Other, as maybe some southern reps make a go for it when Philidelphia gets occupied or when fighting begins to pick up in the South.
 
John Dickinson. He fought independence tooth and nail in the Continental Congress (though his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania laid a lot of groundwork toward the logic of independence). If the revolution took off in a way that disagreed with his beliefs (say, became far more violent in the French sense), I could see him turning to the British. It would take a massive change in the revolution to for this to occur.
 
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