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The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections (American Heritage Series (New York, N.Y.).)
The Political Writings of John Adams Representative Selections - American Heritage Series New York, N.Y. Author:John Adams A reprint of the 1954 Bobbs-Merrill edition. "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 a popular assembly, an aristocratical council, an oligarchical junto, and a single emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody, and in every... more » respect diabolical." The consequences of this article for Adams thought are nowhere better articulated than in this anthology, which presents his remarkable attempts at constructing a complete political system based on constitutional, balanced, representative government.« less