Defending ocean trade routes doesn’t require shredding the Constitution. When French warships were seizing hundreds of American vessels, President John Adams didn’t panic. He followed the Constitution – deferred to Congress over a dozen times – and still got the job done. In this episode, learn the forgotten – and completely ignored – history behind war powers and the Constitution, and how it all played out in the so-called Quasi-War with France.

Path to Liberty: March 28, 2025

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Maharrey – War Powers: The True History of John Adams and the Quasi-War with France

John Adams – Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Relations with France (16 May 1797)

John Jay – Charge to the Grand Jury, the Circuit Court for the District of Virginia (22 May 1793)

An Act to prevent citizens of the United States from Privateering against nations to amity with, or against citizens of the United States (14 June 1797)

An Act providing a Naval Armament (1 July 1797)

John Adams – First Annual Address to Congress (22 Nov 1797)

John Adams – Special Message to Congress (19 Mar 1798)

An Act to establish an Executive department, to be denominated the Department of the Navy (30 Apr 1798)

James McHenry – Letter to Alexander Hamilton (12 May 1798)

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to James McHenry (17 May 1798)

James McHenry – Letter to John Adams (18 May 1798)

An Act to declare the treaties heretofore concluded with France, no longer obligatory on the United States (7 July 1798)

An Act further to protect the Commerce of the United States (9 July 1798)

An Act vesting the power of retaliation, in certain cases, in the President of the United States (3 Mar 1799)

An Act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependence thereof (27 Feb 1800)

An Act to continue in force “An act to authorize the defence of the merchant vessels of the United States against French depredations” (22 Apr 1800)

John Adams – Letter to John Marshall (4 Sept 1800)

Bas v Tingy (1800)

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