What's the beef with Adams?
He enacted the Alien" and "Sedition" acts. On his defeat, and before the end of his term, he packed the court with federalist judges, one of which was Marbury, who, in the infamous Marbury v Madison, forever interpretted the Constitution to mean exactly what the Supreme Court Justices says it means. It is what allows our government, especially the judiciary, to run rough shod over the Constitution's original intent....his federalist views are the reason he hated Jefferson so.