Roger Sherman Anti Federalists

Around the American Revolution, it was controversial how it should be run .Of these one of these debates was about which government the United States should adopt. Two types of people were involved in this controversy; there were Anti-Federalists and Federalists. The Federalists would rather have a stronger central government while the Anti-Federalists preferred more power to go to the individual states. In order to reach a compromise of this national debate, Roger Sherman, an extremely influential and out-spoken figure in the country’s freedom, held a dinner party. The ambition of this dinner party, in Sherman’s point of view, was to convince the Anti-Federalists to support the idea of a stronger central government. Many things would come …show more content…
Gerry was born in 1744 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. His father was very wealthy and politically active so he was a very active in politics from a young age. He was one of twelve children in his family. Gerry graduated Harvard in 1762 and went to work with his father in their merchant business. In 1772 he met Samuel Adams and from then on was a huge influence on both Boston as well as Massachusetts’s government. He was chairman of a committee that gave the Great Compromise. He attended the Continental Congress and was one of the most vocal speakers at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.He played a part in producing the compromise, he wasn’t satisfied with it. Like Mason, Gerry refused to sign the Constitution due to the lack of the bill of rights. Originally, Gerry liked the idea of a stronger central government, but as time progressed, he turned to the anti-federalist side. However, this is surprising because he was from Massachusetts, which was not a very big …show more content…
At the age of twelve, he was sent away to Donald Robertson’s School. There, he learned many things including Latin and Greek. He had an early career in politics by 1776 when he attended the Virginia Convention. At the Constitutional Convention, Madison proposed the Virginia Plan, which was the first plan to be reviewed at the convention. In order to get everyone on board with the Constitution of the United States, Madison wrote twenty-nine of the eighty-five essays that were anonymous in The Federalist. Madison was a federalist and the delegate who recorded almost everything at the Constitutional Convention. Another guest at the dinner party is John Jay. Jay was born in 1745 in New York City, New York. He attended Kings College, which is presently known as Columbia University. In 1774, at the age of twenty-eight, he was the second youngest person to attend the First Continental Congress. Jay was a Federalist and helped James Madison and Alexander Hamilton write The Federalist. He supported the federalist version of the draft of the