John Quincy Adams

True, but not really.

The reason why I did it is because a guy named John Adams, who was a member of the Sons of Liberty.

And I know, Eric, I'm speaking to the choir when I tell you this stuff.

When he was a member of Sons of Liberty, he was a young lawyer.

That was putting kerosene on a fire that was raging.

It culminated in many ways in 1770 with the eruption of this violence called the Boston Massacre, a murder on King Street.

And as much as John Adams thought necessary that we were going to need a revolution and an autonomy, he says it doesn't matter.

We've got to find out if these men are guilty of killing people, including Christmas addicts, in cold blood.

Boy, how'd you narrow it down to six?

i wanted to make it understandable and readable and i thought 10 was too many and after doing i do this series on fox nation called what makes america great so i travel the country put together 45-minute documentaries on different moments or different places and people you know whether it's thomas edison or benjamin franklin or thomas jefferson or the alamo and i got to know all these historians and i would always would say hey what's the great moment what's the moment that befuddles you that if it went the wrong way we wouldn't be the same country So I came up with Louisiana Purchase, the Boston Massacre, John Quincy Adams fighting against slavery, the conscience of the country, the burning of Washington to the ground, and what we did after when it looked like we could have been finished and the British could have gotten revenge for the Revolutionary War.

So you put together that, Shays' Rebellion that led to the Constitution.

I thought these are some crisp stories that would make people appreciate America a little bit more.

And I got to know all these historians.

And I always would say, hey, what's the great moment? What's the moment that befuddles you that if it went the wrong way, we wouldn't be the same country? So I came up with Louisiana Purchase, the Boston Massacre, John Quincy Adams fighting against slavery, the conscience of the country, the burning of Washington to the ground, and what we did after when it looked like we could have been finished and the British could have gotten revenge for the Revolutionary War.

So you put together that, Shays' Rebellion that led to the Constitution.

I thought these are some crisp stories that would make people appreciate America a little bit more.

So you appoint someone that's a crony that's not going to play it straight and somehow gets it through.

So is there recourse? You say there's a statute, but there is precedent when the House had difficulty selecting a speaker, right? My understanding is that John Quincy Adams plays a role in an episode, a historical episode that you've spoken about in the past.

Can you tell us about that and whether that's relevant? Sure.

Yes.

Crazier people have served on the Supreme Court.

It's not without precedent for someone who previously served in a different branch of government to serve on the Supreme Court, both John Quincy Adams, well, he went to Congress.

William Howard Taft served as Supreme Court Justice after his presidency.

And as you said, Cabot, Ted Cruz, everyone knows that Ted Cruz wants to be a Supreme Court Justice.

All eyes closed across the room.

My favorite founding father, by the name of John Quincy Adams, was a president, one of our earliest presidents.

John Quincy Adams was known as one of the first abolitionists to want to ban slavery when it was incredibly unpopular in the early 1800s to even have that opinion.

And he ran as an abolitionist.

And he had so many other good issues that even those that were pro-slavery ended up getting behind him for president.

as the leader of the abolitionist movement.

And he sees him fall and he sees his heart stop.

He races over, picks up John Quincy Adams, helps carry him to a couch that's still there today where he would never wake up.

And in several places, we actually have the the real language that people used.

For example, when the young boy Kale is writing a letter to John Quincy Adams about how to represent the Mende people before the U.S. Supreme Court, you can go and read that letter.

And a lot of it is right there in the graphic novel.

So David is very respectful of the history.

And what you see is moral decay in the United States.

And John Adams famously said that our Constitution is made for a moral and religious people.

It's wholly inadequate to any other.

Well, if we wonder why our country has issues...