A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
work by Adams
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discussed in biography
- In John Adams: Political philosophy of John Adams
…citations, and personal observations entitled A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787). A fourth volume, Discourses on Davila (1790), was published soon after he returned to the United States. Taken together, these lengthy tomes contained Adams’s distinctive insights as a political thinker. The…
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views on suffrage
- In liberalism: Liberalism and democracy
John Adams, in his Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America (1787), was more explicit. If the majority were to control all branches of government, he declared, “debts would be abolished first; taxes laid heavy on the rich, and not at all on others;…
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