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President John Adams did not declare war on France because it would give too much power to Alexander Hamilton. He did not want Hamilton to become the country's highest ranking general.

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He did not want to go to the war with France because they had slim chance of winning, and it have heart new born country.

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John Adams was against going to war with France. He believed war to be a last resort, and instead, focused on diplomacy.

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In his term in office the United States wasn't in any position to declare war nor fight one. The country was still recovering from the revolutionary war.

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