There were two groups, The Federalists and Anti-Federalists. The Federalists wanted the Constitution. Anti-Federalists' wanted amendments added to the Constitution. ... The first amendment was created by James Madison in 1781, he didn't want to repeat history like with Great Britain. ... In 1789, James Madison was nicknamed "the father of the Constitution". ...
Hamilton supported that idea when he stated "I go no further," he wrote in The Federalist, "and affirm that bill of rights are not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous. ... One of the first congressmen who recognized that the national legislature must add personal rights to the Constitution was James Madison, the framer of the Bill of Rights. On June 8th Madison quoted; "It cannot be a secret to the gentlemen in this House, that, notwithstanding the ratification of this system of government yet still there is a great number of our Constituents who are d...
Considered necessary by many at the time of its development, the Bill of Rights became the cause for a huge debate between two different factions: The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The Federalists were those who thought that there should be a new Union created with a strong centralized government and individual regional governments. ... On the other hand, the Anti-Federalists were opposed to such a form of government on the grounds that the Constitution, in which it was outlined, lacked clarity in the protections of the individuals. The Anti-Federalists "whose memory of British op...
"By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison in 1787, it was accepted by the leading political thinkers in America that freedom of speech and press were natural right belonging to each citizen. Madison, later a congressman, drafted a bill of rights, drawing heavily upon the Virginia Declaration of Rights that was the work primarily of anti-federalist George Mason. Madison's First Amendment, modified in various ways of no great importance to us now, became law of the land in 1791" (Ostrowski 3). ... The Act was enforced against Republican papers in an effort to keep Jefferson&#x...
In the federalist papers No.10, James Madison stated that "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man;...according to the different circumstances of civil society. A zeal for different opinions concerning religion, concerning government, and many other points, as well of speculation as of practice; an attachment to different leaders ambitiously contending for pre-eminence and power;...have, in turn, divided mankind into parties, inflamed them with mutual animosity, and rendered them much more disposed to vex and oppress each other than to co-operate for their common g...
