What Is John Adams View Of Government

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JOHN ADAMS John Adams was born on October 30, 1735, in Quincy, Massachusetts. His father, John Adams Sr. was a farmer, minister, and a town councilman. Both of young John's mother and father were descendants of well known and important families during that time in colonial Massachusetts. John Adams Jr. attended Harvard university on a scholarship at the age of 16 and earned his masters degree in law. By the year 1758 he was admitted in the bar and became a successful lawyer. John Adams was a very well known for being a courageous, considerate and very fair person in his time and was appreciated and liked by many. He was looked at this way because of what he did in 1770, during the Boston Massacre trials, when he represented the British soldiers that were on trial for killing five Bostonian civilians. He took this case without even giving it a second thought and believed that no matter how guilty some one had seemed they always deserved to defend themselves and share their half of the story. Many people did not like …show more content…

He was one of five that represented the colony at the First Continental Congress in 1774. Then Congress decided to make the Continental Army in 1775, John Adams made the choice to nominate his friend George Washington as its commander-in-chief. Adams had a solution that said that the colonies should each legally have independent governments, and Congress approved his resolution in May 1776. After Adams gave the basic introduction to this new idea, it set the stage for the conventional passage of the Declaration of Independence. Richard Henry Lee and John Adams had the same idea, that's why on June 7, 1776, Adams seconded Richard Henry Lee's resolution of independence. Congress then assigned the job of writing the Declaration of Independence to John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert R. Livingston and Roger

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