... effectively in place by 1789. It was written by fifty-five delegates, all property owners. There were many varied concerns and pressures when writing the Constitution. It had to ensure John Lockes idea of "Government by Consent", Montesqueus idea of the "Separation of Powers", other factors including taxation and slavery, however the most important to these men was to protect their ... to ideas. The founding fathers were realists who knew the dismal record of human liberty in the past and understood that while free government was possible, it was hardly inevitable. John Adams, Ambassado...

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... the President supreme power over foreigners living in American during a time of war, it also changed the time of residency to have citizenship from 5 to 14 years. The Sedition Act banned spoken or written criticism of the government, the Congress, or the President. The laws were passed by the Federalist Party and were directed, in part, at a group of Republican journalists ... -Federalists, drew together into a Jeffersonian party; first called the Republicans and later the Democratic Republicans, they eventually became known as the Democratic party. Party politics had not yet crystallize...

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