During the time the Declaration of Independence was created, Larson explains the start of conflict towards the presidential election began when the friendship between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams started during the American Revolution, along side with Benjamin Franklin as they agreed to rebuild the United States. For their roles in creating the Constitution, Franklin organized the document, Jefferson was the primary author and Adams persuaded Congress for independence. All three of them were the iconic image of the Declaration of Independence and how “they stood together, seemingly larger than life” (Larson, 2007, 5) and as the Second Continental Congress was approaching in 1775, Adams was excited to meet and work with Jefferson again. He had complemented
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Adams was the Minister of Great Britain, the Vice President of George Washington in 1789 and was married to Abigail Adams with six children, however he did not spend much time with them because of the amount of traveling and work he had. After Jefferson’s wife’s death, John and Abigail took him in seeing that they consider him as family and Jefferson’s friendship with them, especially with Abigail, has grown stronger as he felt she was an intelligent equal if he needed someone to talk to. During George Washington’s term and their service in the Cabinet, their friendship began to deteriorate because of the conflict between their political views of a federal government, thus bringing the two-party system in effect. Adams, as a Federalist, saw “a strong central government led by a powerful president as vital for a prosperous, secure nation…Hamilton had unabashedly depicted the monarchical British government as ‘the best in the world’ and famously proposed life tenure for the United States President and senators” (Larson, 2007,
Adams was the Minister of Great Britain, the Vice President of George Washington in 1789 and was married to Abigail Adams with six children, however he did not spend much time with them because of the amount of traveling and work he had. After Jefferson’s wife’s death, John and Abigail took him in seeing that they consider him as family and Jefferson’s friendship with them, especially with Abigail, has grown stronger as he felt she was an intelligent equal if he needed someone to talk to. During George Washington’s term and their service in the Cabinet, their friendship began to deteriorate because of the conflict between their political views of a federal government, thus bringing the two-party system in effect. Adams, as a Federalist, saw “a strong central government led by a powerful president as vital for a prosperous, secure nation…Hamilton had unabashedly depicted the monarchical British government as ‘the best in the world’ and famously proposed life tenure for the United States President and senators” (Larson, 2007,