This paper will focus on the opinions of Robert Yates (Brutus) who is anti federalist and Madison who is a supporter of federalism. ... This was the key factor the anti federalists were fighting against. ... (Siemers, 2003) Supporters of federalism like James Madison are known as federalists. (Wills, 2002) James Madison in his views refers to the republicans as the conservative persons who do not want to share power with the common man. ... (James Madison the federalist, No 51)...

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James Madison, according to some, is a prime example of a leader who attempted to secure the American people's civil liberties. ... Madison's major points are made in Federalist Papers ten and fifty-one. Madison's main concern in Federalist Paper number ten is that the Constitution provides the people with a government that protects them against factions. ... James Madison stated that to eliminate factions would be to eliminate liberty, but that liberty is as crucial to factions as air is to fire. ... Roche also went on to call Madison and Hamilton's Federalist Papers...

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Like Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison, I undoubtedly believe that a strong central government is the only means of a correctly functioning democratic government. ... This would not be true of an anti-federalist government. ... I think James Madison says it best in Federalist #10, "Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable". ... James Madison in Federalist #46 states, "It has been already proved that the members of...

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James Madison, in Federalist No. 46 wrote that the state and national governments were made and given different powers. Madison was clearly moving to check totality of control. Alexander Hamilton concurred in Federalist No. 28 by stating that the people would sustain a balance between national and state power. ...

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The development of the Federalists and Republicans developed gradually in the mid-1790's. ... The Federalists did not want those immigrants who favored the Republicans to be able to. ... This was another way the Federalists could get rid of opposing immigrants who favored the Republicans without causing a rebellion within the states. ... The opposition of the Alien and Sedition Acts led to the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions that were written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Kentucky Resolutions whereas James Madison drafted the Virginia Resolutions. ...

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During the making of the Constitution different plans and ideas were proposed and were mainly argued against these two factions, the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist, which eventually led to an agreement in the end. ... The federalist favored for the constitution because it gave a little more power to the central government. ... Also the Federalist wrote a series of essays that went to the newspaper called 'The Federalist Papers", they were made to favor the constitution, while many citizens thought that the constitutions gave to much power to the government and that it will t...

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The Federalists and Anti-Federalists debated this new plan of action for months. The Federalists were supporters of the Constitution. ... John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison wrote a series of essays and published them as The Federalist Papers. ... The Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the Constitution; they feared that a strong central government would be used as an instrument of tyranny. ... They saw the Federalists as people who would oppress lower class people. ...

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On the other hand there were Federalists who were afraid of weak central government. After a Shaye's rebellion federalists opposed to the fact that people should have all the power. ... And as James Madison said, " If all people would be angels there would be no need in government." ... In Document number Five, Beard gives us an opinion of the federalist on what is that basis of all government and this document written by James Madison states that " The chief business of government .consists in the control and adjustment of conflicting economic interests." ... As Hamilton has it in Feder...

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Initially when the constitution was drafted, the anti federalists opposed it on the grounds that it gave too much power to the national government. ... Thus, James Madison argued in Federalist no. 10 that it would be in a large Federalist republic such as the United States, that one would find the greatest opportunity for all relevant interests to be heard. ...

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