The answer is true it was during the civil war
Americans feared that the Soviet Union hoped to spread communism all over the world, overthrowing both democratic and capitalist institutions as it went.
It led for the citizens of each state to decide whether or not their state would be a free or slave state. Although it did backfire with events such as bleeding Kansas
He believed a government should protect the rights of citizens. He also thought man was inherently selfish; this why government should protect people. With that, he believed in checks and balances was necessary to prevent any group of people becoming more powerful than another.