... for president. He lost by three votes, which under the prevailing system meant he was elected Vice President and the Federalist, John Adams, was elected president. The Federalist Administration turned upon its political opponents by passing the Alien Act, to deport foreign radicals, liberal propagandists, and agitators, also the Sedition Act, to hold the press. The Sedition Act gave the Administration the power to fine, imprison, and prosecute any opposing writer ... , so therefore the Republicans were kept quiet in the remaining years of Adam's Administration ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... time Marshall was politically active in Virginia. He served in the House of Delegates for two periods; (1782-1790 and 1795-1796). He became a state leader of the Federalist Party and this is where all the problems arouse with him and Thomas Jefferson. This is due to the prior events of Jefferson with the Virginia Federalists. Also during this time Marshall became involved in ... the Virginia Convention debates concerning the adoption of the Constitution. He was selected to defend a strong judiciary. Opposing Marshall ... end of Adams presidency he made a number of "midnight" appointment...

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• Grade Level: High School

... eliminated, and Jay's Treaty and Pinckney's Treaty (1795) with Spain had enlarged U. s. territory and removed serious diplomatic difficulties. In spite of the animosities and conflicting opinions between Democratic Republicans and members of the Hamiltonian Federalist party, the two groups were at least united in acceptance of the federal government. Washington refused to run for a third term and after a mastery Farewell Address in which he warned ... the United States against permanent alliances abroad, he went home to Mount Vernon. His vice-president Federalist John Adams succeeded hi...

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... secretary of state and chief justice of the United States. In 1799, however, at the urging of President George Washington, Henry ran for a seat in the Virginia legislature. At this time Patrick Henry's ideas seemed to be far less radical and even pointed in the opposite direction. While running for a seat in the legislature, Henry campaigned vigorously as a Federalist, the political faction that supported a strong federal government ... , and in doing so separated from most of his former supporters (Microsoft, 2002). Henry was motivated by his opposition to the Kentucky and Virginia reso...

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... basic freedoms. Why didn't the Constitution have a bill of rights? The Federalists, who did not see the need for a bill of rights, felt that a list of specific rights was not necessary. In fact, it was detrimental to protecting individual rights. The opinion of Federalists (as written by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper No. 84) was that if the Constitution contained a list of ... specific individual rights and liberties that the national government COULD NOT abuse then it might ENABLE the national government to abuse areas of liberty that were NOT specifically prescribed ... in t...

• Word Count: 1763
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• Grade Level: High School