[El Gato]

Sons of Liberty would be radical relative to John Adams, for instance.

John Adams was a member of the Sons of Liberty.

At most you could say that he was not as radical as his cousin Sam.

[Tublecane]

My mistake. I intended, and did in fact, to draw the distinction between cousins. John a chose originally because I consider him to be one of the closest to modern conservatism among the founders.