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1 Oct 2009, 7:02 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]
28 Jun 2010, 6:41 pm by Brian Cuban
  Good performances by Matthew McConaughey and Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams. [read post]
7 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
The Amistad (1841), redolent as it is with John Quincy Adams’s resort to the principles of the Declaration of Independence. [read post]
24 May 2010, 11:21 am by @ErikJHeels
(Plymouth, MA) Allan R Shaw Memorial Foundation, Inc. [read post]
5 Mar 2012, 7:18 am by Julian Ku
” But as Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis shows in “Surprise, Security and the American Experience,” the United States has been claiming the right to use force against emerging threats since 1818, when John Quincy Adams, President James Monroe’s secretary of state, formulated the doctrine to justify Gen. [read post]
26 Jul 2011, 3:11 pm by Jenny Martinez
More importantly, the cases were inextricably intertwined with a series of diplomatic negotiations with foreign countries concerning the slave trade and other issues of international relations, and also occurred in the context of national political divisions related both to the issue of slavery and to raw electoral politics (including, as Witt points out, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams' presidential ambitions). [read post]
11 Aug 2023, 2:10 am by Seán Binder
Adam Liptak reports for the New York Times. [read post]
2 Jul 2013, 1:41 pm
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30 Jan 2011, 5:50 pm by Larry Downes
  John Quincy Adams was obliged to confess:  “My own system of administration, which was to make the national domain the inexhaustible fund for progressive and unceasing internal improvement, has failed. [read post]
16 Sep 2009, 1:47 pm
(Quincy, MA; Kimberly Wozniak, President) Animal Welfare Fund, Inc. [read post]
28 Jun 2012, 7:01 am by admin
  And in fact, some Massachusetts towns have enacted mobile-home park land rent control, namely Belchertown, Bernardston, Boston, Brookfield, Cheshire, Chicopee, Dalton, Ludlow, Merrimac, Middleboro, North Adams, North Reading, Orange, Palmer, Peabody, Pittsfield, Raynham, Rockland, Salisbury, Springfield, Wales, Warren, and West Bridgewater. [read post]
11 Sep 2010, 10:04 am
We shall have occasion to return to this point, as we look at ECUSA's plans for these remnant minorities -- the dissidents in San Joaquin, Fort Worth, Pittsburgh and Quincy who refused to abide in each case by the majority's vote to realign their diocese with a different province of the Anglican Communion. [read post]
28 Nov 2013, 4:24 am by Benjamin Wittes
Second, during the era of Federalist government, Madison expressed anxieties with what he saw as excesses of federal power under Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton and President John Adams—and grave concerns with civil liberties abuses in the name of security. [read post]