1. Slavery (specific to the way it should be written in the Constitution)
2. The need for a Bill of Rights
3. Weaknesses in Articles of Confederation (could they be revised to avoid writing a completely new document aka the Constitution? or are they impossible to work with?)
4. Legality of the actual writing of the Constitution (conference was actually supposed to be used to revise the articles, but instead was clandestine and involved the writing of an entirely new document)
what is a opponet
There were two sides to the Great Debate: the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The Federalists wanted to ratify the Constitution, the Anti-Federalists did not.
There were two sides to the Great Debate: the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. The Federalists wanted to ratify the Constitution, the Anti-Federalists did not.
The Federalists, who were for the ratification of the Constitution, and the Anti-federalists, who were against the ratification.
Anti-Federalists
anti-federalists.
no they were leaders of the anti-federalists.
The federalists supported the constitution but the anti federalists wanted to change/tweak the constitution.
Federalists were overwhelmingly northern; Anti-Federalists were overwhelmingly southern
Madison, the president
The Anti Federalists did not want a strong central government.
The anti-federalists were led by Thomas Jefferson.