Liberty was the main issue in these debates for the Anti-Federalists. ... The Federalists and Anti-Federalists debated on the issue of this. ... Liberty was promised according to this and the Federalists said that they wanted the people to have liberty, but the Anti-Federalists didn't believe this. ... The Federalists and Anti-Federalists differed on many points as they tried to accomplish what they went to Philadelphia for. Even though the Federalists came out on top and got the Constitution ratified, the Anti-Federalists got their points across. ...

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Anti-federalists were mostly farmers, and known to be poorer than most Federalists. ... Most federalists were wealthy and well educated. ... Unlike the Anti-federalists, the Federalists were much more organized. ... The turning point for the federalists came when John Hancock, a famous Anti-federalist, recommended several amendments to the Constitution, including a Bill of Rights. This proposal gave a solution to many of the Anti-federalist's concerns. ...

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There was a lot of anti federalist things going on. But there was two differences between Federalist and Anti-Federalist. Now for Federalist it was about how the people that were agreeing with the Constitution these people were called the federalist people. ... But these three men were on of making the federalist together but had and argument about the documents that went on from the federalist part. ... So they had leaders of older regions helping them out to fight against the federalist people the revolution part of anti-federalist. ...

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The group of people who favored the Constitution of the United States were called federalists. The federalists fought all who were opposed to the ratification of the Constitution. ... Although approval from its entire people is ideal, the Constitution also had its opposers or anti-federalists. ... As a compromise to both federalists and anti-federalists, an addition was added to the Constitution on December 15, 1791, it was called the Bill of Rights. ... As a compromise for both the federalists and the anti-federalists, the Bill of Rights was created, which protects natural rights. ...

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Federalist who supported the constitution and Anti-Federalist who didn't support it. Anti -Federalist argued that it needed a Bill of Rights. While the Federalist said that with out A strong national government political disorder would result, they agreed to add a Bill of Rights as the first order of business under the new government. ...

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By 1792 it was clear that Federalist followed Hamilton and republicans Jefferson. ... Jefferson and his presidential actions and legacies A. the election of 1800 Jefferson ran for president The federalist attacked Jefferson from every possible way, accused him of radicalism, and even a bringer of "murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest." they also tried to convince the people that a person with agricultural orientation could not properly run the country and because of his rural bias the country could not move forward. Jefferson only promised to bring back the nation to the path of ...

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People divided into two groups, the Federalists and Antifederalists. Federalists were supporters of the constitution, while the Anti-Federalists were against it. Anti-Federalists wanted a weaker government with less powers than the Constitution proposed. ... Since the Anti-Federalists refused to ratify the Constitution without a Bill of Rights being added, James Madison promised to create one as long as they agreed to ratify the Constitution. ...

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The New Constitution ratified by the people of the United States was written by great demigods who were set out to create a fair and balanced government. The new constitution established new and better laws for the central government and for the people. New state constitutions were the first st...

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After the war there were many different opinions about the way the colonies would be governed, some (non-federalists) believed that every American colony should have their own government. Non-federalists believed that forming a central government would result in abusive power and tyrannical rule. ... The federalists believed that a strong central government would help the country become and stay unified. The federalists refuted all of the anti-federalists complaints by explaining to them that the system of checks and balances would prevent tyrannical rule and ensure that the middle class st...

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He talked to the white men about their fears of the Federalists and brought new people into the state and national office. He was different from the federalists because he appealed more to the middle class, rather than the upper. ... This was actually more supported by the federalists than the Jeffersonians and it ultimately divided the North and the South into separate societies. Northern legislation eventually compromised Jefferson's principles, for federalists, and later, Whigs, and all started to agree with the belief of anti-slavery, however the South still was strongly against it...

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The American and French Revolutions both occurred in the eighteenth century; subverting the existing government and opening the way for capitalism and constitutionalism. Because of these similarities, the two revolutions are often assumed to be essentially eastern and western versions of each other. However, the two are fundamentally different in their reason, their rise, progress, termination, and in the events that followed, even to the present. The American Revolution was not primarily fought for independence. Independence was an almost accidental by-product of the Americans"...

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Thomas Jefferson considered himself neither Federalist nor Anti-Federalist. ... Jefferson felt that because he opposed some of the Federalists ideas and many more of the Anti-federalists ideas that he could not be grouped with either party or in between the parties. ...

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According to the author, the Antifederalists lacked faith in this Federalist government of limited powers, but these men of restricted view or understanding could not prevent ratification of the Constitution. ... The author's view of the proper role of the states in the 1780's seems to owe more to the Federalists and to events after 1789 than to objective scholarship, and her suggestion that the Constitution created no central power ignores both political reality and the variety of Federalist thought. ...

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Things in England have been the same for hundreds and hundreds of years. The King or Queen is the figurehead while the Prime Minister and Parliament run the nation. The have a House of Lords and a House of Commons. There is no written document. There is not system of checks and balances. Common law ...

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Things in England have been the same for hundreds and hundreds of years. The King or Queen is the figurehead while the Prime Minister and Parliament run the nation. The have a House of Lords and a House of Commons. There is no written document. There is not system of checks and balances. Common la...

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Thomas Jefferson was a man of many abilities. Jefferson would complete one achievement and move on to the next. Jefferson was of great importance and had written goals more eloquently for his country than any American ever has. Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia.H...

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Jefferson faced opposition from his own party as well as from the Federalists. As mentioned earlier, Jefferson had an interest in North American exploration. He used his presidential power to purchase Louisiana from France and gave Meriwither Lewis and William Clark the opportunity and the r...

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Elbridge Gerry Elbridge Gerry was born on July 17, 1744 in Marblehead, Massachusetts. He was the third of twelve children. His mother was the daughter of a Boston merchant and his dad was a wealthy politician and merchant .Gerry attended Harvard where he studied to be a physician, but after he g...

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Jefferson and the Republicans and Hamilton and some Federalists wanted war with France for economic reasons, but Adams kept his nerve and when the opportunity was there he sent another peace commissioner to France and defused the crisis. ...

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The revolutionary war fought between 1776 – 1785 was a major impact in American history. The revolutionary was had many influential characters who shaped the revolution in various ways. The men known as the founding fathers played a major part during that war period. George Washington, John Adams,...

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Joseph Mallonee FRE Essay #2 Dr. Reeves AP U.S. History The American Revolution represented a radical alteration in American political ideas and institutions. American thinkers and political leaders came up with new ideas about what democracy should look like. They also created new institution...

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Gouverneur Morris was an American statesman and diplomat, and one of the most important authors of the U.S. Constitution. He was born January 31, 1752, at Morrisiana estate, in Westchester County, NY, in 1752. He lived in a wealthy family of Loyalists. He had a half brother, named Lewis, who sig...

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Main touches upon the slight favoritism seen from Peterson toward Jefferson, "If at times Peterson becomes too defensive of Jefferson, he compensates by willingness to criticize" (Apr. 1971). 3 Although, Main agrees with a majority of Peterson's work, he does condemn him by not trying to draw a clear distinction between the different groups of Federalists and the programs of Adams and Hamilton in 1798. ...

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But "The Federalist" argues that the Senate, as actually proposed in the Constitution, was calculated to be such a device as would operate only in a way that "will consist with the genuine principles of republican government." ...

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Thomas Jefferson and his slaves children Slavery in America was created since the new world was first discovered. Treating humans as a possession led to terrifying cruelties. Discuss in details the origins and use of slave in America. Thomas Jefferson shows his most Important achievement, the dra...

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