greykit.essays — American Founding/john-adams

• 1776-04-01 [american-founding] Thoughts on Government

  Adams's blueprint for republican government — a bicameral legislature, an independent judiciary, and annual elections — written as a letter and taken up by several state constitutions.

  #founding-era#1770s#letter#republicanism#separation-of-powers#self-government#liberty
• 1797-03-04 [american-founding] Inaugural Address

  Adams's inaugural, professing attachment to the Constitution at the first transfer of the presidency between two men.

  #founding-era#1790s#speech#constitution#republicanism#self-government