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

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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 ou

The Revolutionary Writings of John Adams presents the principal shorter writings in which Adams addresses the prospect of revolution and the form of government