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This book about Adams' political scholarship taught me that Adams was more intellectually accomplished and more instrumental in creating the United States Constitution than he has been given credit for. I also learned that the widely held belief that he, after the revolution, advocated monarchy and aristocracy is a false notion treacherously perpetuated by his partisan political detractors and is disproven by his written works. Reading this work bumped him to the top of my list of favorite Found...
Absolutely fascinating study, providing surprising insights into the structure of our government, and its enduring strength.The key innovation in Adams' political thought concerned political architecture -- he created a structure that interweaves two tripartite separations: the modern liberal (Locke, Montesquieu) conception of the separation of powers (legislative, executive, judicial) and the classical and Renaissance republican (Plato, Aristotle, Polybius, Machiavelli) conception of the one, t...
The definitive book on understanding John Adams as a political theorist.