Essay On The Constitution Dbq

In the early days of American history, many of the founding fathers took precautions while writing the Constitution. The reasons these precautions were taken was so that the people of the United States wouldn’t be oppressed because of any amendments or rules. There were many opinions on why/why not the constitution should be supported. However, the Constitution was altered so that we would be truly and undeniably free from oppression. Federalists and anti-federalists have many good and acceptable reasons on their beliefs. However, America needs a Constitution to survive. Members of the Federalists movement saw that America wouldn’t be able to survive without a Constitution. George Washington said “thirteen [powerful], independent, disunited States are in the habit of . . . refusing [to obey our national …show more content…
The main fear of the Anti-Federalists was that the government would become oppressive “There is no security in the system [under the proposed new U.S. Constitution] either for the rights of [people with different ideas] or the liberty of the press . . . The executive and the legislature are so dangerously [combined] that [it should cause people to be alarmed] . . . There is no [system] for [making sure that power does not stay] in the same hands for life. (Doc.2)” However, Federalists saw how the Constitution was written and saw that this wouldn’t happen under it’s rule. “…it is the opinion of this Convention that certain amendments and alterations in the said Constitution would remove the fears and quite the apprehension of many of the good people of the commonwealth [the resolution goes on to recommend such amendments as]…that all powers not expressly delegated by the …Constitution are reserved to the several states…that no person be tried for any crime….until he be first indicted by a grand jury… (Doc.6). The United States requires a constitution in order to