This Da Capo Press
edition of A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States
of America is an unabridged republication of the first edition published in
London in 1787-1788.
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A
DEFENCE
OF THE
CONSTITUTIONS OF
GOVERNMENT
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA.
BY JOHN ADAMS, LL.
D.
AND A MEMBER OT
THE ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES AT BOSTON.
All nature's
difference keeps all nature's peace. Pope.