REVOLUTIONARY CAUSE. WHENEVER HE SET OUT ON A LONG JOURNEY, ABIGAIL WAS LEFT TO RUN THE FARM. JOHN AND ABIGAIL ENDURED LONG SEPARATIONS. HE WAS MADE THE FIRST U.S. MINISTER TO THE COURT OF ST JAMES AND MOVED WITH HIS FAMILY TO ENGLAND. ABIGAIL WAS NOW BACK INTO THE LIGHT WITH HER MANY DINNER PARTIES. MANY TIMES JOHN WOULD NOT RECEIVE HIS ENTIRE PAY AND SHE WOULD HAVE TO STRETCH THE BUDGET TO ALLOW ENTERTAINING. AS THE MINISTER TO GREAT BRITAIN HE WROTE HIS DEFENCE OF THE CONSTITUTIONS OF GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (1787). HE EXPRESSED HIMSELF STRONGLY, WHAT SOME PEOPLE CONSIDERED TO BE “ARISTOCRATIC” LIVES – AS IN THE SUGGESTION THAT “THE RICH, THE WELL BORN AND THE ABLE” WOULD COME TO COMPOSE THE UPPER CHAMBER OF A REPUBLIC IF IT WERE TO SURVIVE.” THE PUBLICATION WAS FILLED WITH DIFFERENT EXTRACTS AND MATERIALS FROM VARIOUS WRITERS ON GOVERNMENT AND HUMAN NATURE. THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE DEFENCE ARRIVED IN AMERICA IN TIME TO INFLUENCE THE MEMBERS OF THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION. MANY ELECTORS WERE OFFENDED BECAUSE OF HIS ARISTOCRATIC POINT OF VIEW AND DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM IN THE PRESIDENTAL ELECTIONS OF 1789. JOHN ADAMS BECAME THE SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES IN 1796. ADAMS WON THE ELECTION WITH ONLY A FEW MORE ELECTORAL VOTES THAN THOMAS JEFFERSON, PARTIALLY BECAUSE HIS PARTY (FEDERALISTS) WAS SPLIT AND PART OF THE VOTES WENT TO ANOTHER FEDERALIST. AT THIS TIME THERE WERE TWO POLITICAL GROUPS, THE FEDERALISTS – THE CONSERVATIVE FACTION LED BY ALEXANDER HAMILTON, WHICH ADVOCATED A STRONG, CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT AND FAVORED INDUSTRY, LANDOWNERS AND MERCHANTS, AND THE DEMOCRATIC-REPUBLICANS, LED BY THOMAS JEFFERSON, WHO EMPHASIZED PERSONAL LIBERTY AND LIMITED POWERS FOR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. ALTHOUGH ADAMS WAS CONSERVATIVE HE WAS A LEADING FEDERALIST. ADAMS BEGUN HIS TERM AS PRESIDENT WITH DEEP SUSPICIOUS NOT ONLY ABOUT JEFFERSON, BUT HAMILTON AND HIS FOLLOWERS AS WELL. H...
