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12 Oct 2010, 6:00 am by Cicely Wilson
  From the 11th Congress, look at the American State Papers to read James Madison nomination of John Quincy Adams to be minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the court of St. [read post]
20 Dec 2018, 8:12 am by Eric Turkewitz
John Quincy Adams, our sixth president who left office in 1829. [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 9:16 am
. #2 — John Adams (Harvard, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #3 — Thomas Jefferson (College of William & Mary, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #4 — James Madison (College of New Jersey — now Princeton — then read law) #6 — John Quincy Adams (Harvard, then apprenticed as a lawyer) #7 — Andrew Jackson (self-taught lawyer) #8 — Martin Van Buren (Kinderhook Academy, then apprenticed as a lawyer)… [read post]
20 Oct 2017, 6:12 am by SHG
Frederick, John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Disappearance of the Right of Petition, 9 Law & History Review 113 (1991) • Jonathan R. [read post]
14 Jan 2014, 5:29 pm by Timothy Sandefur, guest-blogging
” Chief among the anti-slavery constitutionalists was one of my great heroes, John Quincy Adams. [read post]
26 Apr 2016, 6:02 am by Brian Kalt
Nobody had won a majority in the electoral college, so the top three candidates (John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson and William Crawford) proceeded to the House contest. [read post]
1 Jun 2008, 5:12 pm
John Quincy Adams, the son of Second President John Adams Jr. was the lawyer who defended the slaves who had revolted and killed their captors Good performances by Matthew McConaughey and Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams. [read post]
4 Dec 2008, 2:32 pm
John Quincy Adams, the son of Second President John Adams Jr. was the lawyer who defended the slaves who had revolted and killed their captors. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 9:01 pm by Michael C. Dorf
After losing the election of 1824 to Andrew Jackson, Adams could have retired to the after-dinner-speaking circuit. [read post]
1 Oct 2014, 10:43 am
Jenny Martinez took issue with my analysis, arguing that the constitutional objections raised by John Quincy Adams and others were motivated by ideological considerations. [read post]
28 Oct 2008, 8:20 pm
This is not a hypothetical situation - it's actually how we picked Thomas Jefferson President in 1800 and John Quincy Adams (left) President in 1824.The fact that Democrats currently hold a majority of House seats is immaterial. [read post]
31 Oct 2012, 7:16 am by J. Gordon Hylton
Plumer instead voted for his friend, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams for President and United States Ambassador to Britain, William Rush as Vice-President, even though neither Adams nor Rush were candidates for those offices. [read post]
18 Sep 2020, 2:23 pm by Nathan Dorn
Argument of John Quincy Adams, before the Supreme Court of the United States: in the case of the United States, appellants, vs. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 6:18 am
The Episcopal Church, et al., in the Adams County Circuit Court. [read post]
20 Jun 2008, 2:01 am
" (1789) John Quincy Adams "The struggle for American independence was for chartered rights, for English liberties, for trial by jury, habeas corpus and Magna Carta. [read post]
2 Dec 2012, 9:53 am
 Sure, John Quincy Adams went to the House after being President and William Howard Taft became Chief Justice after being President. [read post]
In doing so, he broke a long-standing tradition dating back to George Washington that recognizes that the House of Representatives has the right to demand information from the executive to support impeachment proceedings—a right so self-evident that John Quincy Adams declared that it would make a “mockery” of the Constitution to think otherwise. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 10:43 am
John Quincy Adams, the son of Second President John Adams Jr. was the lawyer who defended the slaves who had revolted and killed their captors. [read post]