On 30 April 1839, fifty years to the day after Washington took his oath in New York, the former president addressed the New York Historical Society. Adams retraces the failures of the Articles of Confederation, the making of the Constitution and its grounding in the Declaration of Independence, and argues that the Union rests on the whole people rather than on the states.
A short, forceful statement of constitutional nationalism from one of the founders’ heirs. Download the free EPUB.