A Founding Father on the Constitution
Item 366584Extraordinary autograph letter signed "J. Q. Adams" to William Cranch, on the proposed Constitution, detailing at length his objections to...
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Newburyport: December 8, 1787. A Founding Father on the Constitution. Both John Quincy Adams and his first cousin William Cranch (1769-1855), whose mother was Abigail Adams's sister, graduated Harvard in 1787. Cranch would go on to read the law in Boston under Massachusetts Supreme Court Judge Thomas Dawes, while Adams..... Read More Item Details for Extraordinary autograph letter signed "J. Q. Adams" to William Cranch, on the proposed Constitution, detailing at length his objections to various sections of Article 1, criticizing the proposed document as not in the democratic interests of the people to protect their liberties, quoting from Blackstone and his father's Defense of the Constitutions, and concluding: "We shall in a short time slide into an aspiring aristocracy, and finally tumble into an absolute monarchy, or else split into twenty separate and distinct nations perpetually at war with on another; which God forbid!" Add to Wish List
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