- John Adams (allthetropes.org)
Successfully defended the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre from the charge of murder. Author of the pamphlet: “Thoughts on Government” which became the blueprint for most of the state Constitutions and through them the federal Constitution. Adams also wrote the Massachusetts Constitution. He was the second president of the United States of America.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Thomas Aquinas (plato.standford.edu)
Between antiquity and modernity stands Thomas Aquinas (ca. 1225–1274). The greatest figure of thirteenth-century Europe in the two preeminent sciences of the era, philosophy and theology, he epitomizes the scholastic method of the newly founded universities.
- Thomas Aquinas (Wikipedia)
Thomas Aquinas OP (/əˈkwaɪnəs/ ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d’Aquino, lit. ‘Thomas of Aquino’; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, the foremost Scholastic thinker, as well as one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the Western tradition. He was from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily.
