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Item #36425 A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, against the Attack of M. Turgot in his Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second day of March, 1778. By John Adams, LL.D. President of the United States. John ADAMS.
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, against the Attack of M. Turgot in his Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second day of March, 1778. By John Adams, LL.D. President of the United States
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, against the Attack of M. Turgot in his Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second day of March, 1778. By John Adams, LL.D. President of the United States

A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, against the Attack of M. Turgot in his Letter to Dr. Price, Dated the Twenty-Second day of March, 1778. By John Adams, LL.D. President of the United States

Volume I, Third Edition, Philadelphia: Printed by Budd and Bartram, for William Cobbett. Volumes 2 and 3, First Editions, London: Printed for C. Dilly, in the Poultry; and John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1797, 1787, 1788. Three volumes, 8vo. (8 1/4 x 4 3/4 inches). xxxiii, 392 pp.;451pp.; 528 pp., (36). Portrait frontispiece of John Adams facing table of contents of volume 1, with a 6 page list of subscribers after the preface.

Adams' influential work on American constitutional thought.

This work is one of the most important and widely read of the many writings of the important Revolutionary figure and second president of the United States. At the time Adams wrote this work he was serving as the first United States ambassador in England, an uncomfortable position for a recent rebel, but he was ever ready to argue the American point of view. Here he forcibly states the principles on which he perceived the United States to be founded. The book was popular and went through numerous editions. Its issuance as the Federal Constitutional Convention was assembling added to its popularity and resulted in several American reprintings, and according to the DAB, "its timeliness gave it vogue." Later, Adams' detractors sought to find in it a hidden desire for a monarchy.

Evans 31689-31691; Gephart 8687; Howes A60, "aa"; Sabin 235.

Item #36425

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