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September 25 – A Bill of Rights (video)

​September 2​5:- ​A Bill of Rights ​​”​​What think you of a Declaration of Rights? Should not such a ​Thing have preceded the ​Model?” to Thomas Jefferson, November 10, 1787John Adams knew something about compromise. It is what he had to fashion among the delegates of the Continental Congress in order to achieve Independence. The Constitutional […]

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September 17 – Constitution Day (video)

​September 17:Constitution Day The two Presidents that I portray, John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt, were not involved in the drafting of the United States Constitution. But that didn’t stop either of them from having a lot to say on the subject. To celebrate this day that the United States’ governing document was approved, the following video shows […]

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September 3 and 4 – Liberty and Fish

​September ​3 (&4)- ​Treaty of Paris: Liberty & Fish John ​Adams​to Elbridge Gerry, September 3, 1783 ​The third of September, will be more remarkable or the Signature of the definitive Treaties than for the Battle of Naseby or Worcester or the Death of Oliver Cromwell. The Treaty of Paris was a major date in John […]

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