This helped to develop his early penchant for reading from a wide selection of topics. ... After his fathers defeat to Thomas Jefferson he returned home. ... Historians regard the treaty as a brilliant act of diplomacy, and close to the end of Adam's life, he called it "the most important event of my life". ... "The sun of my political life," he confided in his diary, "sets in the deepest gloom." ... He had given up a good part of his life to serve his country. ...

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Reagan changed his political party affiliation in the 1950s because he "believed that the Democratic Party had been taken over by "tax-and-spend" liberals who had forgotten the warnings of Thomas Jefferson and Woodrow Wilson that government was a threat to liberty" (p. 48-9). ... He outlined his goals in his speech to Americans on February 18, and brought economic awareness to the American people during the televised political debate on October 28, 1980 between himself and Jimmy Carter, where he asked the American people to consider if they were presently any better off than they were four yea...

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Life under the Articles of Confederation was filled with hardship and uncertainty, the United States government was in a state of chaos. ... Our Early Government As adopted, the articles provided only for a "firm league of friendship" in which each of the 13 states expressly held "its sovereignty, freedom, and independence" (Alden 340). ... Noticeably absent were the revolutionary leaders of the effort for independence in1775-76, such as John Adams, Patrick Henry, and Thomas Jefferson (93-94). ... Alexander Hamilton, wanted a strong central government in which a Senate and ex...

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