Joseph J. Ellis Quote

Eager to oppose Thomas Paine’s prescription in Common Sense for a huge single-house legislature that purportedly embodied the will of the people in its purest form. For Adams, the people was a more complicated, multivoiced, hydra-headed thing that had to be enclosed within different chambers.

Joseph J. Ellis

Eager to oppose Thomas Paine’s prescription in Common Sense for a huge single-house legislature that purportedly embodied the will of the people in its purest form. For Adams, the people was a more complicated, multivoiced, hydra-headed thing that had to be enclosed within different chambers.

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