What makes a people a people?

[Wild Bill]

According to the Founding Fathers, political parties and proportional voting systems supported the notion of factions, verboten in their system of thought. Hence the Federalists (those who supported the Constitution of 1787) like Washington, Adams Hamilton, were against any objection to the government maintaining that the Revolution of 1775 had settled such issues and the new government was too pure to be objected to on any level. Hence they passed and supported the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1797 and threw their opponents in jail. Jefferson believed differently and released these men. You can see the same restrictive notions in American political parties on all sides of the spectrum, especially the Democrats since they control the executive branches government, the IRS, censoring college speakers, etc.