Ratification Of The Constitution Essay

The Influences in the ratification of the Constitution
By the author of the third antifederalist paper it was written, “all human authority, however organized, must have confined limits, or insolence and oppression will prove the offspring of its grandeur, and the difficulty or rather impossibility of escape prevents resistance.” By the end of the Revolutionary War, the colonists began to realize that the government established under the Articles of Confederation was insufficient, America needed a new government. One that was strong enough to control a large geographic region and its people, but not strong enough to morph into a tyranny. This was the birth of the constitution, proposed by the Federalists, which was to be a foundation for the future United States of America, a foundation that would one day be the “supreme law of the land” that offered liberties only provided in the United States of America. After the creation of the constitution, in order for it to replace the current regime, it needed to be ratified by at least nine states, this lead to the Anti-Federalist papers and Federalist papers, one advocating for the …show more content…
“… the power vested in congress of sending troops for suppressing insurrections will always enable them to stifle the first struggles of freedom (Federalist Paper #8)." The preservation of individual liberties are the keys to a healthy government, and today individual liberties are essential to our democracy, they are what makes the United States different from other nations. As citizens of the United States, we must receive equal treatment under the law (“civil liberties”). After the ratification of the constitution the Anti-federalist created the bill of rights, which ensures a government can’t oppress its citizens. We see the influence of their concerns in the structure of government today, civil liberties are the face of the United