1. Antifederalists and the Constitution
... the Constitution pointed the United States, others did not. There were two main groups of people in this debate; the Federalists and the Antifederalists. The Federalists wanted the larger and more powerful national government in order to unify the Americans that the Constitution would create, while the ... given authority over the states when it was required to maintain the union; everything else would be left up to the states. The Federalists were opposed this idea, believing that it would cause conflict between the states. They believed that the Constitution would not give complete p...
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