... . The American government at the time was divided as we are today, but instead of having the Democratic and Republican Party they had the Federalists and Non-Federalists. Both the Federalist and Non-Federalists believed in allowing citizens to have gun, what was different about their views is the different regulations that they would like to apply on the second amendment ... . The Federalists believed that an army should be in control of defending the people therefore making individual ownership of guns unnecessary. The anti-Federalist believed that every individual should be allowed to c...

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... power. As a result, though the national government has come to vast powers, it exercises many of those powers through state governments. 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. United States has a vast social diversity ... ...

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... has shown itself. Anti-federalists said the new constitution was a class-based document intended to ensure that a particular economic elite controlled the public policies of the national government. An anti-federalist under the alias "Cornelius" said, "Thus, I conceive, a foundation is laid for throwing the whole power of the federal government into the hands of those who are in the mercantile interest ... ; and for the landed, which is the great interest of this country to lie unrepresented, forlorn and without hope." Amos Singletury, yet another anti-federalist from Massachusetts wrote...

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... factions or parties, it may just be inevitable that politics are a major player in a democratic system from the local level up and through the national level. Madison writes in The Federalist 10 Papers, "The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different ... ...

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... favor of a rule that was based on multiple beliefs as well as rules, and this came to be through their system of divided powers. "In a free government", stated Madison in Federalist 51, "the security for civil rights must be the same as for religious rights . . . It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in ... ...

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... of rights, felt that a list of specific rights was not necessary. In fact, it was detrimental to protecting individual rights. The opinion of Federalists (as written by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper No. 84) was that if the Constitution contained a list of specific individual rights and liberties that the national government COULD NOT abuse then it might ENABLE the national government ... ...

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