during this time there was a great divide between the Federalists and the Anti-federalists the Anti-federalists opposed the the constitution, they believed the president and government have too much power. The federalists supported a strong central government and believed the state should not have more power than central government. The farmers wanted to a stronger federal government because they were already broke and under the Articles of Confederation the economic problems were only getting worse. So by creating the constitution this allowed most farmers to live without struggle, the constitution didn’t really hurt anyone because it helped economically, gave us a better judiciary system and also made voting…
James Madison wrote the Federalist Paper No. 51 specifically to explain to the readers how this new government makes liberty possible. He explains the various checks and balances that have been placed in order to ensure that not one specific branch would have too much power. The Federalist appeared in many different New York newspapers such as The New York Journal and The Daily Advertiser. The Federalist essays were written as responses to the many antifederalist opinions against the Constitution and they were originally intended to be only twenty essays long but were instead continued due to the continued criticisms of the Constitution.…
Federalism in the constitution helps guard against tyranny by giving neither the state or central government enough power to tyrannize. According to Doc. A, “James Madison, Federalist Paper #51, 1788”, “power...is first divided between two distinct governments” Also in the Venn diagram on Doc A neither the state or local government possesses all the power. They either have to share a power or only one side gets that certain power. This helps guard against tyranny because it is preventing the central or local government from holding all power.…
During the constitutional convention, the federalist and the anti-federalist went head to head trying to create new laws for government. Many articles were written by James Madison; these articles were the federalist papers. Within these paper, Madison outlines that the constitution protects against tyranny by dividing power between state and government, by separating government into branches, having a checks and balances system, and having equal state representation among the states. In document A, James Madison states that power is “First divided between two distinct governments, state and federal.” This describes the idea of federalism, where state and federal governments share power; powers like declaring war and printing money belong…
It didn't make sense for the National Government to have more power leaving the states weak. They also believed that the power among the three branches was not equally divided. The Anti-Federalist were more for the people, more of which were farmers and small landowners. More and more the Anti-Federalist believed that the Federalist were more interested in a aristocratic society which would be at the expense of the commoners of the colonies. Now the way the Federalist won over the ratification of the Constitution was that James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton wrote The Federalist Papers which helped convinced some people to ratify the Constitution.…
Madison thought that with two governments (state and federal government) the people would have double security. (Doc A) This is true because the federal government does make laws that protect the people; The state governments also make more laws for their state to protect the people further. One example of this is that laws make criminals face jail time.…
The Federalist Papers were papers written in 1787 by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay. There were eighty-five papers in total. However we will just be covering numbers ten, fifty-one, forty-seven, and thirty-nine. These cover many of the major problems that would be facing a new government. These papers were very important to our constitution, and our founding.…
The Federalist papers were written in attempt to get citizens to ratify the United States Constitution in 1787, and more specifically the citizens of New York. Eighty-five essays made up the Federalist papers. When citizens were reviewing the United States Constitution the Federalists papers basically guided them through it and helped people to understand how the Constitution should be interpreted as well as where the ideas came from. In the first paper we were assigned, Federalist number 10, James Madison argued that if you wanted a satisfactory economy the Partisan democracy is not the best idea to get that.…
The first major claim he makes is that the three governmental branches will seek to be independent from each other in an attempt to keep their governmental powers from being encroached upon. This is particularly explicit from Madison in Federalist 51, “But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others.” Again, the idea of separate branches comes as a central point in the containment of federal powers. Additionally, Madison also recognizes that the legislature will always be the more powerful branch and is once again stopped from becoming too powerful by use of the bicameral system (Federalist…
In the argument about the ratification of the United States Constitution, both the supporters and the opponents had substantial reasoning for their viewpoints. However, these groups differentiated greatly on what problems were most significant to their arguments. Each group came up with smaller “subgroups” of issues they had with the Constitution or Articles of Confederation. The supporting group of the Constitution was the Federalists, who believed in a strong central government that would better protect and support the new upcoming nation.…
Two of the major leaders of this group were Patrick Henry and Thomas Jefferson, who was overseas during this time. The Anti-Federalists thought that under the Articles people had the rights that they rightfully deserved. Under the Articles, the poor people benefitted greatly. During the process of trying to get the new Constitution ratified the Anti-Federalists felt that under this new government the rich had all of the power instead of the people (Doc 5). Under the Articles the states had the power to make laws and do whatever they pleased, and to some of the states the idea of changing to a government that the central government had all the power was absolutely absurd.…
The Constitution was the first necessary step in proving that America was capable of managing freedom and democracy. They viewed America as an ever-expanding territory that could only survive given a balanced federal government. As the excerpt from James Madison’s public defense of the Constitution states, many foreign governments at the time refused to engage in treaties with America and did not hold the country in high respect because of the ongoing strife between the government and it’s people. Madison argued that ratifying the Constitution would eliminate much of the disunity between the states and would create trust between the general and individual government. He also emphasized the proposal of a three-fourths consensual agreement policy when ratifying new amendments.…
Marie Bowlin Mrs. Adams Lit 107 29 Oct 2017 “The Federalist" writings by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison The Federalist writings were written to ease the fears of the people thinking that the Government had too much power at the expense of the states. They wanted to show the American people that having a constitution was necessary. Hamilton wanted to prove in the No.10 writing that having a strong national Government would help prevent factions from taking control. The writings did work, the constitution was ratified by all the stated in May 1790. I did a little research on the Federalist party; their platform is having a small Government with a checks and balances between the Government and the states that empowers the people and protects…
There were many disagreements at the Constitutional Convention. Numerous dread that the national government was too powerful or would become too strong. As well that the states would extend the inadequate form of Articles. This that 's where federalism was born. It was created as a compromise to make sure power wasn 't all controlled by one…
The importance and sovereignty of a state having the power to decide what is right for their own state is expressed in the address ,but with the example of slavery shows, people's freedom and choice ends when that choice is unjust and infringes on other people’s rights and a strong national government needs to have the power to police states when choices like that are made. Federalism is important in being the voice and power of reason. Some choices that are not infringing on other’s rights and only need to happen at state level make sense in supporting anti federalism, but there needs to be a balance between the two just as there is the problem with antifederalism there are holes in federalism. Balance between power each government has…