John Quincy Adams

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• 6/6/2021
  

  Why a Culture War Over Critical Race Theory? Consider the Pro-Slavery Congressional "Gag Rule"

  by Frank Palmeri and Ted Wendelin

  Like the Southern delegations who opposed discussion of slavery, opponents of Critical Race Theory believe that any discussion of persistent racial inequities in legal and other institutions is unacceptable because it is “divisive.”

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• 6-4-17
  

  Donald Trump is More Like John Quincy Adams than Andrew Jackson

  by Suzy Evans

  Like Adams, he lacks legitimacy and has drawn the ire of his adversaries.

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• 1-29-17
  

  How did John Quincy Adams Become a Great Ex-President

  by Matthew Mason and David Waldstreicher

  By failing as president and dealing with why and how.

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• 2-17-14
  

  Russia and America Were Once BFFs -- Why Not Again?

  by Jane Hampton Cook

  In the nineteenth century, relations between the U.S. and the Russian Empire were nothing but cordial. Could that happen again?

• SOURCE: NYT
  8-7-13
  

  James Traub: The Tea Party’s Path to Irrelevance

  James Traub, a columnist at foreignpolicy.com, is writing a biography of John Quincy Adams.WASHINGTON — THE Tea Party has a new crusade: preventing illegal immigrants from gaining citizenship, which they say is giving amnesty to lawbreakers. Judson Phillips, the founder of Tea Party Nation, recently told Politico that his members were “more upset about the amnesty bill than they were about Obamacare.”...Tea Partyers often style themselves as disciples of Thomas Jefferson, the high apostle of limited government. But by taking the ramparts against immigration, the movement is following a trajectory that looks less like the glorious arc of Jefferson’s Republican Party than the suicidal path of Jefferson’s great rivals, the long-forgotten Federalists, who also refused to accept the inexorable changes of American demography.The Federalists began as the faction that supported the new Constitution, with its “federal” framework, rather than the existing model of a loose “confederation” of states. They were the national party, claiming to represent the interests of the entire country.