This second source is taken from a special message John Adams delivered to the Senate and the House. It urges support of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

“[No one can doubt] whether the people of the United States will support the Government established by their voluntary consent and appointed by their free choice, or whether, by surrendering themselves to the direction of foreign and domestic factions, in opposition to their own Government, they will forfeit the honorable [place] they have [to this point] maintained.”

—John Adams
May 16, 1797

Which of the following best summarizes the excerpt here?

Foreign factions threaten to undermine the will of the American people.

The claims of the Democratic-Republicans are confusing the American people.

The Constitution will be ineffective if these acts are not supported.