William Maclay was one of the first two senators under the new federal government that was formed by the Constitution. He wanted and asked that the treaties and other legal documents mentioned by George Washington also be read so the investigation would be fair and just. And it is the right of all parties to know what was the truth.
The daimyos were a class of nobles who owned large estates in Japan. Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu set up a system called sankin-kotai in which he required all daimyos to spend every other year in Edo serving the shogun. What was a result of the sankin-kotai system?
