Avenues to Success for 02/10/09

No man is wise enough or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
     - John Adams, 1735-1826, Second President of the United States

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John Adams and the “Three Gallowses” - Boston 1775

Boston 1775 reader Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Fever 1793 and the upcoming Chains, just wrote to me:
    All kinds of books quote [John] Adams as calling 1777 “the year of the hangman,” but I can’t find anyone who cites a primary source document so I can a) verify it and b) put it in context with whatever else he was writing.
    Do you have a clue about where this one comes from?
Laurie hit on a mystery that’s been bugging me, too. ...

United States Presidential Election, 1800 - United States Presidential Elections

... he election exposed one of the flaws in the original Constitution. People in the Electoral College could only vote for president; the vice president was the person who had the second largest number of votes during the election. The Democratic-Republican plan to have one elector vote for Jefferson and not Aaron Burr was bungled, resulting in a tie in the electoral vote between Jefferson and Burr. ...

John Adams - American Revolution

... Adams' two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." ...

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