It would have been impossible to establish a national government without this clause Miscellaneous It is important to note that even though the Framers feared tyranny, having fought a war for independence against a tyrannical despot, they still saw the need for a strong (but limited) central government. ... The Federalists, proponents of strong national government, favoured the new Constitution. The Anti-federalists opposed it. ... They called themselves "true federalists" and attacked the failure of the framers to include a Bill of Rights. Anti-Federalists claimed that the centralis...

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According to the Portable Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson expressed in the "Notes on the State of Virginia" his observations of blacks or African-Americans as being "inferior to the whites in both the body and mind" (pg. 192-193), and that "nature has been less bountiful to them in the endowments of the head" (pg. 191). ... 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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"___________" (Micronesia): A New State for the Union The United States" offshore territories in Micronesia of Guam, the CNMI (Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands), the FSM (Federated States of Micronesia), the Marshall Islands and Palau all have dependent relationships on the United Stat...

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