In April 1823, US Secretary of State John Quincy Adams discussed the rules of political gravitation, in a theory often referred to as the " ripe fruit theory ".

Adams wrote, " There are laws of political as well as physical gravitation ; and if an apple severed by its native tree cannot choose but fall to the ground, Cuba, forcibly disjoined from its own unnatural connection with Spain, and incapable of self-support, can gravitate only towards the North American Union which by the same law of nature, cannot cast her off its bosom.

In It's Not Funny If I Have to Explain It, Adams recounts having been attacked for the alleged political content of his work, although in the case of one such strip ( where oil drilling kills a unicorn ) he excuses himself by saying " I just thought the image was funny.

Earlier strips did engage in a degree of low-key political satire ( for instance, a series of strips in 1992 where Dogbert runs for President ), but since the early 1990s Adams has mostly focused the strip on corporate issues.

Helen Adams Keller ( June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968 ) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer.

Adams adapted these classical republican ideals of public oratory to America, viewing the multilevel political structure as ripe for " the renaissance of Demosthenic eloquence.

New England voters admired Adams ' patriotism and political skills and it was mainly due to their support that he entered the race.

Paul Nagel argues that his political acumen was not any less developed than others were in his day, and notes that Henry Clay, one of the era's most astute politicians, was a principal advisor to Adams and supporter throughout his presidency.

Nagel argues that Adams ' political problems were the result of an unusually hostile Jacksonian faction, and Adams ' own dislike of the office.

Adams ' personality was much like that of his father, as were his political beliefs.

Adams repeatedly spoke out against the " Slave Power ", that is the organized political power of the slave owners who dominated all the southern states and their representation in Congress.

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However, the Founding Father who perhaps most studied and valued Machiavelli as a political philosopher was John Adams, who profusely commented on the Italian's thought in his work, A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America.

Adams has often commented on political matters.

In New York at this time the faction supporting President John Quincy Adams, called " Adams men ," or the " Anti-Jackson " faction, were a very feeble organization, and shrewd political leaders at once determined to utilize the strong anti-Masonic feeling in creating a new and vigorous party to oppose the rising Jacksonian Democracy.

During Harding's western travels, historian Samuel H. Adams claims that Harding's own political views began to expand and became more independent from established Republican Party agenda.

Xenophon's standing as a political philosopher has been defended in recent times by Leo Strauss, who devoted a considerable part of his philosophic analysis to the works of Xenophon, returning to the high judgment of Xenophon as a thinker expressed by Shaftesbury, Winckelmann, Machiavelli, and John Adams.

His political ideas, however, many of them in continuity with Turgot's, were criticized heavily in the English-speaking world, most notably by John Adams, who wrote two of his principal works of political philosophy to oppose Turgot and Condorcet's unicameral legislature and radical democracy.

During the 1981 hunger strike, Adams played an important policy-making role, which saw the emergence of his party as a political force.

Adams ( allegedly ) rose to become the most senior figure in the IRA Northern Command on the basis of his absolute rejection of anything but military action, but this conflicts with the fact that during his time in prison, Adams came to reassess his approach and became more political.

In Long Kesh in the mid-1970s, and writing under the pseudonym " Brownie " in Republican News, Adams called on Republicans for increased political activity, especially at a local level.

Maguire had also been contacted by supporters of Gerry Adams, then and now President of Sinn Féin, and a supporter of the change in the Provisional IRA constitution.

Maguire rejected Adams ' supporters, supported the IRA Executive members opposed to the change, and named the new organisers the Continuity Army Council.

For four years he worked hard, with help from his supporters in Congress, to defeat Adams in the presidential election of 1828.

Van Buren had originally hoped to block Adams ' victory by denying him the state of New York ( the state was divided between Van Buren supporters who would vote for William H. Crawford and Adams men ).

Due to pressure against the Adams Administration from Jefferson and his supporters, Congress released the papers related to the XYZ Affair, which rallied a shift in popular opinion from Jefferson and the French government to supporting Adams.

When Adams later appointed Clay his Secretary of State, many — particularly Jackson and his supporters — accused the pair of making a " Corrupt Bargain ".

Adams supporters called themselves National Republicans, antecedents of the Whig and later the Republican parties.

In the next election, Jackson's and Adams ' supporters saw value in establishing the opinion of Jefferson in regards to their respective candidates and against their opposition.

It was believed that President John Quincy Adams ’ s supporters in New England, the National Republicans, or as they would later be called, Whigs, would uniformly oppose the bill for this reason and that the southern legislators could then withdraw their support, killing the legislation while blaming it on New England:

Adams quickly endeared himself to the supporters with wins over the Championship's two Sheffield sides in the League Cup, United and Wednesday, before they lost out to Scunthorpe United in the Third Round, after extra time.

Mark Grew failed to lift the club back into the play-offs, though at the end of the season supporters were delighted to learn that Micky Adams would be returning as manager.

During the administration of John Quincy Adams ( 1825 – 1829 ), the president's supporters were referred to as Adams Men or Anti-Jackson.

The Nelson Mandela concert had already lined up appearances by many of Amnesty's most prominent supporters in the music community – including Sting, Peter Gabriel, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, Jackson Browne, Steven van Zandt, Midge Ure, Simple Minds, Youssou N ’ Dour, Joan Armatrading – all of whom declined to partake in the new Amnesty show taking place at short notice just one week later.

Jackson's supporters began to form the modern Democratic Party ; they fought the rival Adams and Anti-Jacksonian factions, which soon emerged as the Whigs.

Over opposition from the South and some from New England, the tariff was passed with the full support of many Jackson supporters in Congress and signed by President Adams in early 1828.

He felt that the first step in reducing the tariff was to defeat Adams and his supporters in the upcoming election.

A strong supporter of Federalism, Bowdoin worked hard for its ratification, bringing a skeptical Samuel Adams and his supporters into the fold by inviting him to a dinner with other pro-ratification delegates, and offering Federalist support to John Hancock in future elections.

When the voices of Sinn Féin supporters were banned from the British broadcast media, Living Marxism carried a front page interview with its leader Gerry Adams, and the IFM picketed Broadcasting House.

Rickard also highlights amongst the key early Fortean Times advocates and supporters: Ion Alexis Will, who discovered The News in 1974 and became a " constant of valuable clippings, books, postcards and entertaining letters "; Janet and Colin Bord, later authors of Mysterious Britain ( Janet also wrote for Flying Saucer Review and Lionel Beer's Spacelink, while it was Colin's Fortean article in Gandalf's Garden that is particularly cited by Rickard as bringing him / them to his attention ); Phil Ledger, a " peripatetic marine biologist ", and The News < nowiki >'</ nowiki > " first enthusiastic fan "; Ken Campbell, Fortean playwright ; John Michell ; Richard Adams and Dick Gwynn, who both helped with the evolving layout and typesetting of later issues ; Chris Squire, who helped organise the first subscription database ; Canadian " Mr. X "; Mike Dash and cartoonist Hunt Emerson.

Jackson supporters in the Senate refused to confirm Crittenden's nomination by John Quincy Adams to the U. S. Supreme Court in 1828, but after his brief service as Kentucky Secretary of State, the state legislature elected him to the first of his four non-consecutive stints in the U. S. Senate.

In 1828, Adams nominated him to replace Kentuckian Robert Trimble as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, but Jackson supporters in the Senate refused to confirm him.

Historian Gregg L. Frazer argues that the leading Founders ( Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Wilson, Morris, Madison, Hamilton, and Washington ) were neither Christians nor Deists, but rather supporters of a hybrid " theistic rationalism ".