ower to the federal government, it should be up to them to decide who received the power, not the body they created.
             This led to a debate over interpretation that sparked one of the first and major issues when the Alien and Sedition Acts were passed. It debated on whether there should be a strong central government or a weak central government in which the individual states have control. Wild attacks of that debate also ignited the second issue, public defamation, which led to the Sedition Act. In a letter to Vice-President, John Adams, President Washington spoke of the problem that immigration produced. He wrote that incoming immigrants would have an unwe
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