The Political Writings Of John Adams

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780895262929
Total Pages : 766 pages
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Download or read book The Political Writings of John Adams written by John Adams and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04-01 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the writings of John Adams and his conservative political philosophy as it fits in the American tradition, providing the text of his major works, letters, and essays.

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872206991
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Writings of John Adams written by John Adams and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Adams (Pres. EE.UU.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Writings of John Adams written by John Adams (Pres. EE.UU.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams presents the principal shorter writings in which Adams addresses the prospect of revolution and the form of government proper to the new United States. Though one of the principal framers of the American republic and the successor to Washington as president, John Adams receives remarkably little attention among many students of the early national period. This is especially true in the case of the periods before and after the Revolution, in which the intellectual rationale for independence and republican government was given the fullest expression. The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams illustrates that it was Adams, for example, who before the Revolution wrote some of the most important documents on the nature of the British Constitution and the meaning of rights, sovereignty, representation, and obligation. And it was Adams who, once the colonies had declared independence, wrote equally important works on possible forms of government in a quest to develop a science of politics for the construction of a constitution for the proposed republic.

Author : John Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Writings of John Adams written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Macmillan Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780023934001
Total Pages : 223 pages
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Download or read book The Political Writings of John Adams written by John Adams and published by Macmillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1954-06-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Adams (Pres. U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Political Writings of John Adams : Representative Selections written by John Adams (Pres. U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C. Bradley Thompson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700611819
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty written by C. Bradley Thompson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1998-11-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's finest eighteenth-century student of political science, John Adams is also the least studied of the Revolution's key figures. By the time he became our second president, no American had written more about our government and not even Jefferson or Madison had read as widely about questions of human nature, natural right, political organization, and constitutional construction. Yet this staunch constitutionalist is perceived by many as having become reactionary in his later years and his ideas have been largely disregarded. In the first major work on Adams's political thought in over thirty years, C. Bradley Thompson takes issue with the notion that Adams's thought is irrelevant to the development of American ideas. Focusing on Adams's major writings, Thompson elucidates and reevaluates his political and constitutional thought by interpreting it within the tradition of political philosophy stretching from Plato to Montesquieu. This major revisionist study shows that the distinction Adams drew between "principles of liberty" and "principles of political architecture" is central to his entire political philosophy. Thompson first chronicles Adams's conceptualization of moral and political liberty during his confrontation with American Loyalists and British imperial officers over the true nature of justice and the British Constitution, illuminating Adams's two most important pre-Revolutionary essays, "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law" and "The Letters of Novanglus." He then presents Adams's debate with French philosophers over the best form of government and provides an extended analysis of his Defence of the Constitutions of Government and Discourses on Davila to demonstrate his theory of political architecture. From these pages emerges a new John Adams. In reexamining his political thought, Thompson reconstructs the contours and influences of Adams's mental universe, the ideas he challenged, the problems he considered central to constitution-making, and the methods of his reasoning. Skillfully blending history and political science, Thompson's work shows how the spirit of liberty animated Adams's life and reestablishes this forgotten Revolutionary as an independent and important thinker.

Author : Richard Alan Ryerson
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421419238
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Adams's Republic written by Richard Alan Ryerson and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trailblazing study explores Adams’s political thought across his entire career in law and public service. Winner of the Sally and Morris Lasky Prize of The Center for Political History Lebanon Velley College Scholars have examined John Adams’s writings and beliefs for generations, but no one has brought such impressive credentials to the task as Richard Alan Ryerson in John Adams’s Republic. The editor-in-chief of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Adams Papers project for nearly two decades, Ryerson offers readers of this magisterial book a fresh, firmly grounded account of Adams’s political thought and its development. Of all the founding fathers, Ryerson argues, John Adams may have worried the most about the problem of social jealousy and political conflict in the new republic. Ryerson explains how these concerns, coupled with Adams’s concept of executive authority and his fear of aristocracy, deeply influenced his political mindset. He weaves together a close analysis of Adams’s public writings, a comprehensive chronological narrative beginning in the 1760s, and an exploration of the second president’s private diary, manuscript autobiography, and personal and family letters, revealing Adams’s most intimate political thoughts across six decades. How, Adams asked, could a self-governing country counter the natural power and influence of wealthy elites and their friends in government? Ryerson argues that he came to believe a strong executive could hold at bay the aristocratic forces that posed the most serious dangers to a republican society. The first study ever published to closely examine all of Adams’s political writings, from his youth to his long retirement, John Adams’s Republic should appeal to everyone who seeks to know more about America’s first major political theorist.

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142437780
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Portable John Adams written by John Adams and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-06-29 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact, original volume, including parts of his diary and autobiography, and selections from his rich correspondence with this wife, Abigail, Thomas Jefferson, and others. The Portable John Adams also features his most important political works: “A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law,” “Thoughts on Government,” “A Defense of Constitutions,” “Novanglus,” and “Discources in Davila.” There is no finer introduction to the protean genius of this seminal American philosopher. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.