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Jackson and his followers immediately labeled Clay and Adams as striking a “ corrupt bargain ", and they continued to lambast the President until the 1828 election.
When Adams sent three other commissioners to Paris to negotiate, agents of Foreign Minister Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ( whom Adams labeled " X, Y and Z " in his report to Congress ) informed the Americans that negotiations could only begin if the United States loaned France $ 12 million and bribed officials of the French government.
He also became involved in politics, associating with John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and other radical leaders of the broad movement labeled Sons of Liberty.

Adams and Act
It carried the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.
The MFP began lobbying Congress in 1990, and in 1991 Senator Brock Adams ( D-Washington ) and Rep. Barbara Boxer introduced the Military Freedom Act, legislation to end the ban completely.
Adams convinced Gerry to reenter politics after the Boston Port Act closed that city's port, and Marblehead became a port to which relief supplies could be delivered.
Adams, as a Senator, had supported the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson's Embargo Act, actions which made him very unpopular with Massachusetts Federalists.
On March 3, just before his term was to end, Adams, in an attempt to stymie the incoming Democratic-Republican Congress and administration, appointed 16 Federalist circuit judges and 42 Federalist justices of the peace to offices created by the Judiciary Act of 1801.
He repealed the Judiciary Act of 1801, which removed nearly all of Adams ' " midnight judges " from office.
The Judiciary Act of 1801 increased the number of courts to permit the Federalist President John Adams to appoint a number of Federalist judges before Thomas Jefferson took office.
The Act arose due to public education and exposés from Muckrakers such as Upton Sinclair and Samuel Hopkins Adams, social activist Florence Kelley, researcher Harvey W. Wiley, and President Theodore Roosevelt.
* Stuart W. Shulman, “ The Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act: Issue Emergence and Agenda ‐ Setting in the Progressive Era Print Press ,” in Jane Adams ( Ed .).
John Adams equated it with quamdiu se bene gesserint in a letter to the Boston Gazette published on 11 January 1773, a phrase that first appeared in section 3 of the Act of Settlement 1701 in England.
* Adams Act of 1906
In November 1798, David Brown led a group in Dedham, Massachusetts in setting up a liberty pole with the words, " No Stamp Act, No Sedition Act, No Alien Bills, No Land Tax, downfall to the Tyrants of America ; peace and retirement to the President ; Love Live the Vice President ," referring to then-President John Adams and Vice President Thomas Jefferson.
The director encouraged Adams and Goodman to make other allusions to classical operatic forms ; thus the expectant chorus that begins the work, the heroic aria for Nixon following his entrance, and the dueling toasts in the final scene of Act 1.
In 1905, Samuel Hopkins Adams published an exposé entitled " The Great American Fraud " in Collier's Weekly that led to the passage of the first Pure Food and Drug Act in 1906.
Such actions date back to the Judiciary Act of 1801 (" Midnight Judges Act "), in which Federalist President John Adams and the outgoing 6th Congress amended the Judiciary Act to create more federal judge seats for Adams to appoint and the Senate to confirm before the Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson was inaugurated and the Democratic-Republican majority 7th Congress convened.
* The Adams Act – 1906

Adams and ",
John Adams, known by baseball fans as " The Drummer ", has played a bass drum at nearly every home game since 1973.
According to US President John Adams, Ponet's work contained " all the essential principles of liberty, which were afterward dilated on by Sidney and Locke ", including the idea of a three-branched government.
At one time, the script for " Out of the Trees ", written by Chapman and Adams in 1975 ( and later extensively rewritten by Chapman with Bernard McKenna ), was online.
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.
When he declared to the House of Commons in November 1993 that " to sit down and talk with Mr. Adams and the Provisional IRA ... would turn my stomach ", Sinn Féin gave the media an outline of the secret talks indeed held regularly since that February.
" The Death of Klinghoffer by John Adams ", American Music Vol.
" John Adams: A Portrait and a Concert of American Music ", American Music Vol.
" Nixon in China by John Adams ", American Music Vol.
" Process vs. Intuition in the Recent Works of Steve Reich and John Adams ", American Music Vol.
" In April 1798, President Adams informed Congress of the " XYZ Affair ", in which French agents had demanded a large bribe for the restoration of diplomatic relations with the United States.
* Newsradio episode " Review ", featuring Scott Adams
Victoria Adams sang " Mein Herr ", Melanie Brown sang " Greatest Love of All ", Melanie Chisholm sang " I'm So Excited ", Michelle Stephenson sang " Don't Be a Stranger ".
On June 11, 1776, Congress appointed a " Committee of Five ", consisting of John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, Robert R. Livingston of New York, and Roger Sherman of Connecticut, to draft a declaration.
In place of the lyrics " O Canada, we stand on guard for thee ", Bryan Adams ad-libbed, " We're going to miss you, Wayne Gretzky ".
Adams served as its first and only " Premier ", but his leadership failed in attempts to form similar unions, and his continued defence of the monarchy was used by his opponents as evidence that he was no longer in touch with the needs of his country.
In the United States Presidential election of 1800, sometimes referred to as the " Revolution of 1800 ", Vice President Thomas Jefferson defeated President John Adams.
* " Summertime ", by Sam Adams
Alan Haynes describes him as " one of the most strangely underrated of Elizabeth's circle of close advisers ", while Simon Adams, who since the early 1970s has researched many aspects of Leicester's life and career, concludes: " Leicester was as central a figure to the ' first reign ' Elizabeth as Burghley.
Adams admitted that while he originally planned on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas which he had for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.
In interviews that can be found in The Salmon of Doubt, Adams admitted that while he was planning on writing a third Dirk Gently book, the ideas he was having for it would have fit better into another Hitchhiker's book: " A lot of the stuff which was originally in The Salmon of Doubt really wasn't working ", and he planned on " salvaging some of the ideas that I couldn't make work in a Dirk Gently framework and putting them in a Hitchhiker framework ... and for old time's sake I may call it The Salmon of Doubt.
* Robert Merrihew Adams, " Original Sin: A Study in the Interaction of Philosophy and Theology ", p. 80ff in Francis J. Ambrosio ( ed.

Adams and calling
The first three novels in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series were dubbed a trilogy, and even after he extended the series, author Douglas Adams continued to use the term for humorous effect-for example, calling Mostly Harmless " the fifth book in the increasingly inaccurately named trilogy.
In response, on May 10 Congress passed a resolution, which had been promoted by John Adams and Richard Henry Lee, calling on colonies without a " government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs " to adopt new governments.
Adams has denied Moloney's claims, calling them " libellous ".
" In his 19th-century translation of the Poetic Edda, Henry Adams Bellows comments that " some scholars have regarded as a solar myth, calling her the sun-goddess, and pointing out that her home in Fensalir (" the sea-halls ") symbolizes the daily setting of the sun beneath the ocean horizon.
Ansel Adams and president Richard Leonard, two of his closest friends on the board, led the opposition to Brower, charging him with financial recklessness and insubordination and calling for his ouster as executive director.
Adams had also been involved in an incident in 1942, when he had an outburst due to his belief of biased penalty calling, which led to a fit of rage and ultimately a referee getting punched in game three of the 1942 Stanley Cup Final, becoming the first coach to be suspended in a Final.
But it was not until Adams discovered Morton Feldman that he found his calling.
While some accounts say that this was to ensure that George Washington remained the only American president unanimously chosen by the Electoral College, others assert that he was instead calling attention to his friend Adams as a potential future presidential candidate, or protesting against the " wasteful extravagance " of the Monroe Administration.
Tim Adams concurred in The Observer calling the observation " wonderfully precise ".
The interview, which was done on one take, featured Hart pounding the glass table continuously with his fist, calling Adams an egotistical maniac but a very bright young boy, then berating Gino Hernandez calling him a moron and a young punk that is nothing in the wrestling business.
In September 2007, Adams denied rumors of a sexual relationship between the two, calling the allegations scurrilous, and adding that they played into stereotypes of predatory gays.

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