These sources help us understand the post-Revolutionary era and the debate over the Constitution of 1787, because at the time that the American nation was still in its infancy, there was great debate over what would become the framework of the United States government that we know today, the Constitution. The nation was split between two groups, the Federalists, or the supporters of the Constitution, and the Anti-Federalists, who opposed it. There were three significant disagreements between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists, the first of which was the amount of power that the central government should have, as the two groups were torn between how to balance powers between the states and central government. The second was decision of whether
