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It was the wisest and most unpopular act of Adams's troubled Administration.
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gutenberg.orgAlbert Beveridge: “It was the wisest and most unpopular act of Adams's troubled Administration.”
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Beveridge describes a significant yet unpopular decision made by President Adams during his administration, highlighting its complexity.
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My God! what a situation has our country reached.
Is not liberty secure with us, where the people hold all powers in their own hands, and delegate them cautiously, for short periods, to their servants, who are accountable for the smallest mal-administration?...
The genius of the Constitution, and the opinions of the people of the United States, cannot be overruled by those who administer the Government.
Indeed, he thought them only "an experiment on the American mind to see how far it will bear an avowed violation of the constitution.
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