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The Federalists backing George Washington supported Jay's Treaty. Washington is said to have gone to the well of the Senate in secret session to defend the Treaty, and was called a traitor. His dignity would not suffer that kind of attack, so presidents ever after have sent their secretaries of state to defend the administration's policies before the Senate. The text of the treaty was to have been kept secret as resolved by a majority of the Senate, but Senator Stevens Thomson Mason (1760-1803) of Virginia gave a copy to a Philadelphia newspaper, because the people had a right to know. The treaty became one of the defining issues of American politics for the next fifteen years.

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