... . 10 In the paper The Federalist No. 10, James Madison gives his arguments for a Republic government and reasons why he is against a pure Democracy. Madison supports the Constitution because it establishes a Republic government that is capable ... ...
... interference with interstate commerce. The currency of the states and the nation were hopelessly muddled. Creditors everywhere were angry about the depreciated paper money, which the agrarians had made and were attempting to force upon those whom they had borrowed specie. Poor, small landowning farmers ... 1786, led to the loss of land in Massachusetts. During this time Continental army veterans were unable to pay their debts with the paper money that they were supplied with by the Continental Congress. This bankruptcy led to the loss of land and a great rebellion led by ... government ...
... of British oppression was still fresh in their minds "wanted certain rights and guarantees that were to be apart of the constitution (Glasser 1991). A clear demonstration of the Anti-Federalist attitude was performed by Samuel Bryan, who published a series of essays named the Cenitnal Essays, which "assailed the sweeping power of the central government, the usurpation of state sovereignty, and ... control the government in which it empowered. Ultimately the government is a subject of the people; the people created it and the people run it. As James Madison said in the Federalist Paper 5...
