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A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Volume I

A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America: Volume I

Adams, John
Butts, Will

Paperback

General European HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral United States History

ISBN10: 0991117549
ISBN13: 9780991117543
Publisher: Liberty's Lamp Books
Published: Jul 30 2015
Pages: 412
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.92 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Available for the first time in a modern and readable edition!

Preceding The Federalist by several years, this first volume of John Adams' A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a profound work of political and governmental theory.

What prompted Adams to write such a remarkable treatise was a letter, a letter exchanged between a French statesman and a Welsh philosopher, between Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot and Dr. Richard Price. In his letter, Turgot criticized the constitutions of government that several of the American states had adopted since their separation from Great Britain. In Turgot's view, their governments too much resembled the British government, with its king, lords and commons. Turgot advocated a much simpler form of government, a government as democratic as possible, consisting of a single assembly of representatives.

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