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"Prose"
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Gender of Author:
"Male"
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Work title:
"A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America"
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Literary Period:
"Age of Sensibility"
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"Early Modern"
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"Long Eighteenth Century"
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"Romantic"
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"Government"
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Date: 1787
"The young man comparing the conduct, speeches, and pursuits of his father with those of other men, the one watering the rational part of his soul, and the others the concupiscible and irascible, he delivers up the government within himself to a middle power, that which is irascible and fond of c...
preview | full record— Adams, John (1735-1826)