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Former president John Quincy Adams was a Massachusetts representative in Congress when he recalled how the House came to adopt the so-called âgag rule.â The gag rule prohibited…

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Former president John Quincy Adams was a Massachusetts representative in Congress when he recalled how the House came to adopt the so-called âgag rule.â The gag rule prohibited…