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    The Federalist way is the future way. Over the last series of years, federalists have been arguing for a strong central government to rule the land. We strongly believe that the federalist agenda which consists of providing a strong central government by ratifying the constitution will greatly help the nation and be far better than the articles of confederation still in place. The goal of the Federalists is not to have an all controlling government, despite what many Anti-federalists want others

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    In the Anti-federalist number one it states that there is a lot of risk in accepting the constitution, because it has the potential to solve a lot of the nation’s problems but it could also backfire. Theoretically if the constitution does solve the nation’s problems our future generations to come will reap the rewards and benefits, but, if it doesn’t succeed the future citizens of our nation will blame the founders and will lack their God given liberty. The document states that creating a strong

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    Anti Federalists Dbq

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    govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.” (Federalist No. 51) This is only a small part of the many essays the Federalists created in order to create a new government. It was well known that a stronger government was necessary for the prosperity of a nation, but two parties had different ideas for the nation. The Constitution was introduced by a group called the Federalists. It would provide a new stable government, unlike the previous Articles of Confederation

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    Anti Federalist Paper

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    Running head: FEDERALIST PAPERS # 69 1 FEDERALIST PAPERS # 69 4 Federalist Papers # 69 Hieu Le Columbia Southern University Federalist Papers # 69 In the Federalist Papers, Federalist No. 69 was written by Alexander Hamilton outlining the powers that the United States? president should have. The paper compares the powers of the United States? president with the powers of the King of Great Britain (Maggs, 2007). Although the two share some similarities, the powers conferred to the

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    association among the states and set up a federal government with very limited power. After a while they started to notice that without a central government, America was weak and that they needed to revise the Articles. This then led to the federalist vs. anti-federalist debate. In this paper I will show

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    Out of the 55 delegates who attended the Constitutional Convention, only 39 signed the Constitution due to multiple objections from the Anti-Federalists, but these objections were moderately absolved during the ratification process. Delegates who did not sign the Constitution had reasonings that ranged from simply going home early to outright protest. One of the reasons was that the Constitution lacked a Bill of Rights. Individuals who did not sign because of this included Elbridge Gerry, Richard

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    Brutus Anti-Federalist

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    I honestly feel like I am too young and inexperienced towards most political issues, but I think Brutus totally had the right ideas in their Anti-Federalist No. 1 essay, because their ideas still apply today. I think the Brutus was referring to the first two-centuries when he discusses how the world will gain knowledge and make advancements. During that time period, it really seemed like it was role model of freedom and hope to the rest of the world. In other words, the U.S. seemed to be rich with

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    Between the years of 1783 and 1791, there were continuities and discontinuities between the goals and viewpoints of the Federalists and Anti-Federalists. Anti-Federalists were those who opposed the development of a strong government and the ratification of the Constitution in 1788. They preferred for the power to remain between state and local governments. On the contrary, Federalists wanted a stronger national government and they were in favor of the ratification of the Constitution, in an attempt to

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    until the Federalists and Anti-Federalists came along. These two parties had very different ideas on how our government should be ran. A federalist is a member of the Federalist Party, which was the first American political party who agreed with change to the constitution allowing tariffs and a national bank. This party existed from the early 1790s to 1816. An Anti-federalist is a person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 who then allied with Thomas Jefferson's Anti-federal Party

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    philosophies of Federalists and Anti-Federalists have fought against each other to show which was superior. A Federalist is a person who supports a government that is stronger than its states. The Anti-Federalists, however, wanted more power for the states. The Federalists have proven themselves a more suitable option for the newly formed United States of America because they are not a pure democracy, the presidential election cannot be corrupted and. To begin with, the federalists are effective

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