Leslie Wharton (essay date 1980)
SOURCE: “The New England Federalism of John Adams,” in Polity and the Public Good: Conflicting Theories of Republican Government in the New Nation, UMI Research Press, 1980, pp. 33-55.
[In the following essay, Wharton explores the apparent ideological split between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in the years following the American Revolution and maintains that, contrary to popular belief, Adams's political philosophy remained fundamentally consistent throughout this period.]
John Adams, like Taylor and...
Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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