Gordon S. Wood Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• [John Adams' writings] had indicted the United States for slavishly copying the English constitution by erecting bicameral legislatures in their state constitutions, most drafted in 1776.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Writing, Copying, United States

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

• By the time [John Adams] came to write his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States in 1787 he had as dark a view of the American character as that of any critic in our history.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Writing, Character, Dark

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

• [John] Adams said his objective in writing his Defence of the Constitutions of the United States and his Davila essays was to counter what he thought was the unfair criticism of the American state constitutions made by the French philosophers, especially [Anne Robert Jacques] Turgot.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Writing, Criticism, United States

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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