Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When John Adams became the second president of the United States in 1797, he inherited from George Washington a new experiment in ...

Three of the four acts expired shortly after they were signed into law in the late 1700s. One remains active-and it's been at the center of constitutional debates ever since.

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