Jefferson expressed in a letter to James Madison that he liked much of the Constitution and agreed that the greater house should be chosen by the people, yet he felt that the people would choose persons not qualified to legislate. ... The uprising had been caused by the harsh economic conditions faced by farmers, who sought reforms and issuance of paper money. ... 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 eith...

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