The Constitution is the world's oldest working national charter, but it wasn't originally accepted so easy. When the framers were first writing the document, some agreed with what it said and thought there was enough balance between power of the people and power of the officials and others disagreed feeling it left the government too powerful. So, in order to help people change their minds, a group of people known as the Federalists wrote different arguments that helped explain how the Constitution is what the new nation would need to run effectively. The Federalists labeled the Constitution ...

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... high-class and didn't represent the people as much as the anti-federalist, who were against mostly all of the federalists beliefs. Madison and Hamilton were the leaders of the federalists, and along with John Jay published the Federalist Papers. These were persuasive essays used in the Federalist campaign for the constitution. By promising to add a bill of rights to the constitution they met the anti-federalists strongest objection. The bill of rights would protect ... the people from the strong central government Hamilton ... ...

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... of Burgesses. June 1775 sent as one of Virginia's delegate to the second continental congress. 1779 became governor replacing Patrick Henry Vowed not to be involved in government in 1782 after the death of his wife. C. Major contributions, political and social Entrusted with drafting important papers such as, the rejection of a proposal of conciliation from Great Britain's Prime minister. ... Starting June 11th and for 2 weeks Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence. Upon returning to Virginia he launched a comprehensive ... of 1791 he had a newspaper dedicated to patronizing Ha...

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... thought that a large republic with an effective national government offered far better protection against tyranny than the state governments would, where it was far easier to form a permanent majority. John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison wrote a series of essays and published them as The Federalist Papers. They provided the argument for a central federal government, with separate executive legislative and judicial branches that checked and ... balanced one another. Their strategy was to portray America in crisis. The point to a stagnant American economy, potential for revolt...

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... could they have liberty? Liberty was promised according to this and the Federalists said that they wanted the people to have liberty, but the Anti-Federalists didn't believe this. They thought that the liberty was going to be taken away from the people because of all the power the federal government was about to get. In Federalist Papers 10 and 51, Madison and Hamilton talked about a representative government that ... would represent the people. They thought the merchants were the best representatives, better than the laborers and landlords. Madison and Hamilton wrote these in the newsp...

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