Aristocracy Quote by 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

[John Adams] experience with the French philosophers only convinced him further of the need for a bicameral legislature representing the two principal social orders…

— 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

The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a…

— Roy Moore

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

— Ben Carson

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

— Gordon S. Wood

Creating senates, the French critics said, implied that there was another social order besides the people represented in the houses of representatives. [John] Adams…

— Gordon S. Wood

Perhaps more significant than his experience in Europe, though, was [John] Adams's experience in his own country, and his extensive reading on the history…

— Gordon S. Wood

“Again, John Adams understood that the new Constitution simply lacked the powers to control a people who were, by their own lack of virtue,…

— Jack Pelham

“Our founders did not believe that our society could thrive without this kind of moral social structure. In fact, it was our second president,…

— Ben Carson

“Its spirit was animated by the same love of representative government and respect for the rule of law that had produced England’s unwritten constitution…

— Paul Johnson

Britain is not homogenous; it was never a society without conflict. The English fought tooth and nail over everything we know of as English…

— Stuart Hall