Seven Founders -- George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay -- determined the destinies of the new nation.

John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.

Less dazzling than Hamilton, less eloquent than Jefferson, John Jay commands an equally high rank among the Founding Fathers.

This sense of moderation and fairness is superbly exemplified in an exchange of letters between John Jay and a Tory refugee, Peter Van Schaack.

`` As an independent American I considered all who were not for us, and you amongst the rest, as against us, yet be assured that John Jay never ceased to be the friend of Peter Van Schaack ''.

Jefferson wrote in 1785 in a letter to John Jay that

Well-known proponents of this theology are Greg Boyd, Clark Pinnock, Thomas Jay Oord, William Hasker, and John E. Sanders.

The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy.

John Jay Parry, the editor of De Amore, quotes critic Robert Bossuat as describing " De Amore " as " one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explains the secret of a civilization ".

John Jay Parry.

After a forty-five minutes or so of jokes and music, the procession then moves out to the lawn in front of Hartley, Wallach and John Jay residence halls to entertain the residents there.

A troop of students dressed as Continental Army soldiers carry the eponymous log from the sun-dial to the lounge of John Jay Hall, where it is lit amid the singing of seasonal carols.

*( 1964 ) John Jay College of Criminal Justice

* 2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.

John Jay negotiated and signed the treaty on November 19, 1794.

Additionally two Governors of New York, John Jay and Charles Evans Hughes, have served as Chief Justice of the United States.

The original Certificate of Election of John Jay as Governor of New York ( June 6, 1795 )

Although Middleton's term was only for a length of 4 days, a Petition of Congress to King George III, drafted by John Jay was approved, and sent to Great Britain during his term.

On his way to the Netherlands, he was to deliver a set of documents to Chief Justice John Jay, who was negotiating the Jay Treaty.

Musicians appear frequently in key roles – John Lurie, Tom Waits, Gary Farmer, Youki Kudoh, RZA and Iggy Pop have featured in multiple Jarmusch films, while Joe Strummer and Screamin ' Jay Hawkins appear in Mystery Train and GZA, Jack and Meg White feature in Coffee and Cigarettes.

His collaboration with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay produced the Federalist Papers ( 1788 ).

He, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers, a series of 85 newspaper articles published in New York to explain how the proposed Constitution would work, mainly by responding to criticisms from anti-federalists.

* 1862 – John Jay Chapman, American author ( d. 1933 )

It is widely believed by historians that Federalist newspaper editors Nathan Hale, Benjamin and John Russell were the instigators, but the historical record gives no definitive evidence as to who created or uttered the word for the first time.

By 1809 the Federalist party had almost completely disappeared, and its former members ( such as John Quincy Adams, Madison's ambassador to Russia ) had joined Madison's Democratic-Republican party.

In the presidential election of 1800, Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson defeated Federalist John Adams, becoming the third President of the United States.

He painted the Federalist former President John Adams ( 1816 ).

The presidential authority to commission officers would have a large impact on the 1803 case Marbury v. Madison, where outgoing Federalist President John Adams feverishly signed many commissions to the judiciary on his final day in office, hoping to, as incoming Democratic-Republican President Thomas Jefferson put it, " into the judiciary as a stronghold.

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.

In the 1796 election, John Adams, the Federalist Party presidential candidate, received a majority of the electoral votes.

" In New York, the candidates for governor were John Jay, a Federalist, and incumbent George Clinton, who was allied with Jefferson and the Republicans.

The United States ' only Federalist president was John Adams ; although George Washington was broadly sympathetic to the Federalist program, he remained an independent his entire presidency.

The Democratic-Republicans nominated New York's Governor Clinton to replace Federalist John Adams as vice president, but Adams won.

In the election of 1796, for instance, Federalist John Adams came in first, but because the Federalist electors divided their second vote amongst several Vice Presidential candidates, Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson came second.

* 1787 – 1788: Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison

However, the Democratic-Republicans and the Federalists contested the vice-presidency, with incumbent John Adams as the Federalist nominee and George Clinton as the Democratic-Republican nominee.

With incumbent President George Washington having refused a third term in office, incumbent Vice President John Adams from Massachusetts became a candidate for the presidency on the Federalist Party ticket with former Governor Thomas Pinckney of South Carolina as the next most popular Federalist.

< sup >( a )</ sup > Votes for Federalist electors have been assigned to John Adams and votes for Democratic-Republican electors have been assigned to Thomas Jefferson.

* Miller, John C. The Federalist Era: 1789-1801 ( 1960 ), survey of political history

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A well-known American was the pen name " Publius ", used by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, in writing The Federalist Papers.

The Federalist Papers are a series of 85 articles or essays promoting the ratification of the United States Constitution written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay.