As the two-party system emerged, Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans disagreed on many matters. ... Because most European immigrants lacked wealth, they were looked down upon by the aristocratic Federalists. The Federalist congress decided to raise the residence requirements for aliens to become citizens from five years to an unreasonable fourteen years. ... The Federalists defended this law as a war measure, which still didn't seem plausible. ... One of these resolution was drawn up by James Madison, passed by the Virginia Legislature in 1798. ...

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Hamilton supported that idea when he stated "I go no further," he wrote in The Federalist, "and affirm that bill of rights are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous. ... One of the first congressmen who recognized that the national legislature must add personal rights to the Constitution was James Madison, the framer of the Bill of Rights. On June 8th Madison quoted; "It cannot be a secret to the gentlemen in this House, that, notwithstanding the ratification of this system of government yet still there is a great number of our Constituents who are d...

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