Thomas Jefferson, 1798 "They have brought into the lower house a sedition bill, which... undertakes to make printing certain
matters criminal... Indeed this bill and the alien bill both are so (against] the Constitution as to show
they mean to pay no respect to it."

1. The excerpt refers to the

XYZ affair

Creation of the Federalist party

Election of 1796

Alien and Sedition Acts

Assemblies do not have written codes of laws. laws are matters for magistrates and courts, not assemblies. codes of law are things such as civil law, criminal law, and constitutional law. what assemblies have are procedures regarding debating, voting and other business they might carry out.  also note that rome had three assemblies: the assembly of the soldiers, the assembly of the tribes, and the plebeian councils.