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The Anti-Federalists, who were opposed to the ratification of the Constitution because they felt that a powerful national government would violate individual liberties, formed to oppose the Federalist Party.

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jefferson was not a federalist, he was a democratic-republican. and federalist Alexander Hamilton opposed jefferson

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The Democratics did. Thomas Jefferson won in the 1800 election.

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The antifederalists

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Who are federalists and anti-federalists?

Federalist are people who opposed the Connstitution


What group opposed the Constitution?

anti-federalists opposed the constitution


What happened to the Federalists and the Republicans after the war of 1812?

Many Federalists opposed the war.


What were the people who supported the Constitution called?

The side at opposed the ratificaton of the constition was the Anti- federalists. people who were Anti-federalists such as George Mason and others.


Who were the political leaders that opposed the federalists?

The Anti-Federalists, such as Patrick Henry and James Winthrop


Who are the people who supported the new US Constitution?

The federalists supported it the anti-federalists opposed it


Antifederalist opposed ratifying the constitution because they did not want to?

Anti-Federalists were opposed to ratifying the Constitution because they did not want to give the federal government that much power. The Constitution was eventually ratified on June 21, 1788.


Those who opposed the adoption of the Constitution were known as?

"Anti-Federalism also refers to a movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the Constitution of 1787" The Anti-Federalists.


What was the importance of federalists?

Read the federalist papers. The federalists papers were written to support the ratification of the constitution. The anti-federalists were those opposed to the constitution.


The people who opposed the constitution were call the?

anti-Federalists


Which of the following groups opposed the Constitution?

Anti-Federalists


Why were groups such as the federalists opposed of the war of 1812?

It hurt U.S. trade, which was how many Federalists made their living.