对于亚当斯（Adams）而言，在人民本身以自己的权威竖立的第一次形成政府的首次形成，而没有国王和祭司的有毒介入，这尤其令人痛苦。可以肯定的是，这是原因，但是该概念的光荣效力并没有转化为美国人民。16
(For Adams it was especially distressing to witness such conspicuous failure in the first formation of Government erected by the People themselves on their own Authority, without the poisonous Interposition of Kings and Priests. There was, to be sure, such a thing as The Cause, but the glorious potency of that concept did not translate to The People of the United States.16)