Friend,

What is the purpose of the government?

It seems like a question too big to answer, but John Adams took his best stab at it in his 1776 “Thoughts on Government.”

Written just before the Declaration of Independence, this piece was key to how the founders thought about how to structure the new government that would be the first of its kind in the modern world.

We know you don’t have time to read all of Adams’s work, so we put together an explainer for you to learn more about the foundations that inspired our Republic.

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With this explainer, you can get right into the head of one of our most important founders.

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