The two main reasons that the United States did not join the League of Nations<span>are because: 1. Woodrow Wilson, a Democrat, believed that he </span>did not<span> need to bring anyone from the Senate, which was Republican (led by Republican Henry Cabot Lodge), to the Paris Peace Conference with him.</span>
Places restrictions on the Quartering Act (placing soldiers in private homes without home owner's consent), forbidding the practice in peacetime.
The men that attended the Constitutional Convention were mostly lawyers, merchants and planters. Most of them had spent time at college, and generally believed that for the United States to succeed, the influence of direct democracy must be somewhat restrained by the government.
