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Yesterday in history we read a paper called "The Bill of Rock and Roll Rights" this was about a hypothetical situation in which Madonna goes to perform at a farm party on a Sunday. The cops show up and everyone is arrested and put on trial. The party goers had to spend one day in the stocks, Madonna was sentenced to death by hanging after her second trial, and the man who threw the party had to wait a year in jail before a trial and then another year before it was decided that he would be banished and have his farm sold to benefit his favorite charity. We then had to determine which of everyone's rights guaranteed by which amendment were taken away from them in the story. Today we talked about the first party system of the U.S., which included the Federalist party and the Democratic-Republican party. The Federalists were primarily made up of wealthy business men who wanted a physically and militarily strong nation and a strong central government. The Democratic-Republican party was mostly made up of farmers and landowners who thought that the people should have the power through the government at the state level and did not want there to be any adding to laws at the national level, only at the state level.