This paper explains step by step Adams' theory of government. Adams' theory was based on the notion that there are three elements of government: monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, in Adams' definition, the governments of one, of few, and of all. Adams' system of government posits a tripartite legislative structure composed of executive, senate, and representative branches, with no one branch stronger than any other. Adams proposes this system so that no one branch, or the interest in society they represent, can consolidate too much power to themselves, and begin to tyrannize the populace. Adams believed that this golden mean of monarchic, aristocratic and democratic tendencies was the only way to ensure that the liberty of all citizens would be maintained. 7.5 pgs. 24 f/c. 3b.
