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15. John Adams' Rule of Thirds

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #3)

Thu Oct 23, 2025, 02:13 PM

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Has long been misattributed to mean support regarding the American Revolution, while in reality he was writing about the French Revolution: that one third of Americans supported the French Revolution, one third against it, and one third neutral.

https://allthingsliberty.com/2013/02/john-adamss-rule-of-thirds/

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