Adams, John

1. A political leader of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; one of the Founding Fathers . Adams was a signer of the Declaration of Independence . He was the second president, from 1797 to 1801, after George Washington . Washington and Adams were the only presidents from the Federalist party . Adams's presidency was marked by diplomatic challenges, in which he avoided war with France . The Alien and Sedition Acts were passed while he was president.

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The attendees, who included John Adams and George Washington, set about forming a plan of governance for the new nation.

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A representative assembly, John Adams wrote in 1776, “should be in miniature an exact portrait of the people at large.”

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Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence, and John Adams both died on the 4th of July, 1826.

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I refer to the Alien and Sedition Acts, signed into law by President John Adams in 1798.

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John Adams, in his Thoughts on Government, recommended laws against excessive displays of wealth.

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Mr. John Adams, a young lawyer of Braintree and Boston, was greatly interested in the question of the courts of justice.

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It decided to adopt Mr. Dickinson's petition; and to this measure John Adams submitted.

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In these measures Mr. Dickinson acquiesced, as John Adams had submitted to the petition.

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Only John Adams, when he came, was shocked in all his scrupulosity to find an American agent living rent-free!

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You do not pretend to have made any attempt, except by the way of the cartel, the John Adams.

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