John Adams: A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America

( 1787–1788 ) Commentary by Richard Alan Ryerson, Ph.D.

“The body politic cannot subsist, any more than the animal body, without a head.” - A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America
“It is now in our power to bring this work to a conclusion with unexpected dignity.… The deliberate union of so great and various a people in such a plan [the U.S. Constitution] is, without all partiality or prejudice, the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen.” - A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America

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