JOHN ADAMS WAS ALSO A "CLASS WARRIOR"

In this matter, he basically followed Aristotle.  From Thompson's Adams study, p. 218:

The second and related task for Adams's lawgiver was to constitutionalize the natural social conflict between the few and the many. "The great art of lawgiving," he announced, "consists in balancing the poor against the rich in the legislature."³⁶ In sum, the great problem of constitutional construction was in reconciling aristocratic ambition with democratic envy.

The footnote [36] refers to vol. 6, page 280 of The Works of John Adams (1850-56)