During George Washington’s farewell speech he said “However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” During the time of the Framers and when the Constitution was first created, they were completely opposed to the idea of Political Parties, this was because of the fact that they thought political parties were factions in the government. The Framers were afraid that the greater faction would take control of the government. They believed that this would cause the greater Party, if they took office, to ignore the needs and rights of the people in the party that was against them. In the Constitution the th Amendment says that “nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without the due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The Framers thought that this would promote the interests of the party in power and ignore others that are not in that party. The framers did not want to create political parties, which they believed were factions, to be in the government they worked so long and hard to create. In today’s world, we are aware of the present situation in Syria. The ruling party, the Ba’ath Party is legally a faction, and has been ruling for over decades. Now, the president of the party is killing his own people, and the nation is in a state of war. They feared that political parties would cause something like what Syria is facing. For example, in the French Revolution, the peasants felt that they didn’t have rights because the wealthy class had all the power, and was considered a faction. The peasants then killed the wealthy people, and the Framers didn’t want a similar event to happen in the US. However, political parties still managed to be created, and still exist today.