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"A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America"
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Date: 1787
"These false and boasting reasonings, denominating modesty to be stupidity; temperance, unmanliness; moderation, rusticity; decent expence, illiberality; thrust them all out disgracefully, and expel them their territories, and lead in in triumph insolence and anarchy, and luxury and impudence, wi...
preview | full record— Adams, John (1735-1826)