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    constitution or creating a new constitution from scratch really has my mind working. You have the federalist, the people for ratifying the constitution and no Bill of Rights and the Anti-federalist, the people for creating a whole new constitution and having a bill of rights. I have to say that is not much to go off of right there but there is a whole lot more when you go into depth, I am for the anti-federalist. Why, you may ask? Well, for one the Bill of Right is going to be set in stone…

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    The battle to ratify the constitution quickly fell into two camps; the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The Federalists defended ratification of the constitution as it was written with the Anti-Federalists arguing against ratification for a number of reasons. The battle lines had been drawn, however, the arguments were far from consolidated; especially within the camp of the Anti-Federalists. Additionally, both sides took to media outlets to argue their positions where the written word on…

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    The Anti-Federlists are a poltical party that wrote essays that questiones and even pursuade people to not have strong governement.In The Anti-Federalist, Brutus states that a Republic government works only with smaller nations where people’s voices can be heard otherwise the government will gradually become a totalitarian state since it is in human nature to want to be dominant. As the Anti-federalists predicted, the size of a nation will affect how it governs its people. As its population…

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    enormous upset with all parties. The main goal should be to gather unto a compromise rather than grabbing arms and fighting with each owns beliefs. The collection and security of peoples rights also is thrown into play with the debate of anti-federalist and federalists. Liberty of the people is a sacred belief to many of these people and must be achieved and protected. The American republic has stood out amongst other republics, and its smaller sibling, democracy, as the longest lasting and…

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    It is commonly claimed that the idea of Jeffersonian Republicanism was Anti-Federalist. The whole statement is completely accurate because Thomas Jefferson and James Madison alter their policies to coincide with the Federalists perspective. This is proven to be true as evident in the economic and government policies perspectives. The Jeffersonian Republicans placed their faith in the virtues of an agrarian democracy. They believed that the greatest threat to liberty was posed by a tyrannical…

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    Within the Federalist Papers Publius claims that for the United States to work it needs an extended republic given by the Constitution and that any other form of government will not work. Those who oppose the new Constitution, the Anti-Federalists, claim that the new constitution will erode liberty and destroy the government. The Anti-Federalists present several arguments against the Constitution, but Publius quickly and easily shoots them down to show the necessity of an extended republic and…

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    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…

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    are the federalist who supported a strong central government, and the anti-federalist who did not. Both groups have distinct ideological differences on how the new document, and government would be structured. The structure between the states and the central government was among the chief problem between the federalists, and the anti-federalist. Many were afraid of the tyranny of the king. The Articles of Confederation…

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    “I had rather be a free citizen of a small republic of Massachussetts, than an oppressed subject to the American empire.” said by Antifederalist "Anti-Federalist Papers: "A Federalist"" Anti-Federalist Papers: "A Federalist", 1787.. Driven by fear of tyranny, the Antifederalist created an appealing counterargument that opposed the entity of the Constitution. After the antifederalist enforced modifications and the ratification of the Bill of Rights…

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    The Anti-federalists pushed for the Bill of right to be included in the U.S. Constitution to attempt preventing an overbearing central government. The Constitution created by the Federalists was claimed to be written by aristocrats withholding rights to personal liberties of the people. Anti-Federalists feared that this might lead to an aristocratic tyranny where power would be held only by those with time, power, and wealth (Shelley, Schmidt, & Bardes, 2015). While Anti-Federalists were against…

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