Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20151106:06:40:00
Setting aside they were all elected to represent their colony at continental congress and thus were in elected office when they signed the declaration, even setting that aside, the claim that every signer of the declaration of irnd independence had no elected office experience is absolutely not true. 13 of the 56 signers did not hold elective office before being elected to the second continental congress in 1775. but most of them -- most of them were good old-fashioned career politicians, like samuel adams who proposed the continental congress while serving in the massachusetts assembly. thoma...