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9780872206991

The Political Writings of John Adams

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  • ISBN13:

    9780872206991

  • ISBN10:

    0872206998

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-09-01
  • Publisher: Hackett Pub Co Inc

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A reprint of the 1954 Bobbs-Merrill edition. "The fundamental article of my political creed," declared John Adams, "is that despotism, or unlimited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same in a majority of a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every respect diabolical." The consequences of this article for Adams' thought are nowhere better articulated than in this anthology, which presents his remarkable attempts at constructing a complete political system based on constitutional, balanced, representative government.

Table of Contents

NOTE ON THE TEXT viii
INTRODUCTION ix
CHRONOLOGY xxvi
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY xxxi
THE POLITICAL WRITINGS OF JOHN ADAMS
A. PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WRITINGS
I A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law
3(19)
II Instructions of the Town of Braintree to Their Representative
22(4)
III Novanglus and Massachusettensis
26(57)
B. THE POLITICAL SYSTEM
I The Plan Thoughts on Government
83(10)
II The Model The Constitution of Massachusetts of 1780
93(12)
III The Defense
1. A Defence of the Constitution of Government of the United States of America
105(59)
2. Three Letters to Roger Sherman on the Constitution of the United States
164(11)
3. Discourses on Davila
175(20)
4. Letters to John Taylor
195(16)
APPENDIX NOTES 211(6)
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX 217

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