John Quincy Adams' Legislative Proposals

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Presidents, The John Quincy Adams Administration

John Quincy Adams' proposals indicate clearly that he achieved the presidency too late. His ideas were a strong statement of Federalism, but the 1820s was an age of states’ rights. His program would no doubt have pleased Alexander Hamilton; it included the following:

The Adams program encountered a dead-end in Congress where the Jacksonian forces were still smarting from the “corrupt bargain.”

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