Constitution Quote by Gordon S. Wood

It was [John's Adams] Massachusetts constitution if anything that influenced people.

— Gordon S. Wood

By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a…

— Gordon S. Wood

I think [John Adams's] influence on the federal Constitution was indirect. Many including James Madison mocked the first volume of Adams's Defence of the…

— Gordon S. Wood

[John] Adams was arguing that a separate social order existed that needed to be embodied in senates and his fellow Americans could not accept…

— Gordon S. Wood

Americans, [John Adams] wrote in 1780, believed that their "revolution is as much for the benefit of the generality of Mankind in Europe, as…

— Gordon S. Wood

[ Massachusetts constitution] was [John Adams] attempt to justify that structure by the traditional notion of social estates - that the executive represented the…

— Gordon S. Wood

[John] Adams identified himself with the political theories of [James] Harrington, [John] Locke, and [Charles-Louis] Montesquieu, whose ideas of constitutionalism, he believed, were applicable…

— Gordon S. Wood

[John] Adams's letters reveal his persistence and determination to win over the Dutch against all odds and to convince them and the other peoples…

— Gordon S. Wood

“John Adams when he said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of…

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[John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted…

— Gordon S. Wood

[John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what…

— Gordon S. Wood

[John Adams] always felt that his contribution to bringing about independence went unappreciated, especially after the 1790s when [Tomas] Jefferson began to be lauded…

— Gordon S. Wood