The author, Joseph J. Ellis thesis is that John Adams and Thomas Jefferson's differences, formed our modern political system we use today. The author uses many main points to support his thesis, one main point was that they were an incongruous pair, but everyone seemed to argue that history had made them into a pair. A few more main point were that Adams’s strategy was to trade on the famous Adams-Jefferson friendship and to suggest a bipartisan administration, Jefferson was the reason electoral votes were counted, the ongoing debate between Federalists and Republicans had degenerated into unrelenting ideological warfare in which each side sincerely saw the other as traitor to the core principles of the American Revolution, The very idea
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For example the author mentioned all sort of differences between the two and goes on and provides a lot of evidence to prove it. The author was able to support his argument by taking specific things they were responsible for like the Washington's Farewell Address and the Alien and Seditions acts to prove that they were responsible for our political system and instead of just saying he did something. The author use primary pieces of evidence for example he took things from: George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and a few others to help support his argument. The evidence in which he used from them was used effectively since he placed it in the correct spots in which it belonged and used it to support his main points. The author did a good job of being unbiased, for example, while he wrote the article he used both sides of the story such as Jeffersons and Adams. He could have been more effectively if he even out how much evidence he used for each, I noticed he used a little more thing that John Adams did then Jefferson. Overall, this article was written very well, the authors goal throughout the article was to prove his thesis, and he did a good job of doing that by providing multiples pieces of evidence to prove it, which I seen throughout reading this article, which made his argument
For example the author mentioned all sort of differences between the two and goes on and provides a lot of evidence to prove it. The author was able to support his argument by taking specific things they were responsible for like the Washington's Farewell Address and the Alien and Seditions acts to prove that they were responsible for our political system and instead of just saying he did something. The author use primary pieces of evidence for example he took things from: George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and a few others to help support his argument. The evidence in which he used from them was used effectively since he placed it in the correct spots in which it belonged and used it to support his main points. The author did a good job of being unbiased, for example, while he wrote the article he used both sides of the story such as Jeffersons and Adams. He could have been more effectively if he even out how much evidence he used for each, I noticed he used a little more thing that John Adams did then Jefferson. Overall, this article was written very well, the authors goal throughout the article was to prove his thesis, and he did a good job of doing that by providing multiples pieces of evidence to prove it, which I seen throughout reading this article, which made his argument