The republicans thought they should follow the articles of confederation and have a weak central government
The federalists thought there should be a strong central government
The importance of a strong central government
An Anti-Federalist is someone who opposed the ratification of the United States Constitution during the late 1700s. They believed that the Constitution would create an even more powerful federal government that would threaten the rights and liberties of the people. Anti-Federalists wanted to keep the government decentralized and argued that a strong federal government would lead to tyranny and the loss of state-level autonomy. They also feared that the Constitution would lead to an imbalance of power between the states and the federal government. Their primary arguments against the Constitution were that it lacked a Bill of Rights to protect citizens from the government, and that it created a federal government with too much power. They argued that the government should be limited to specific and enumerated powers and that the states should retain their sovereignty. Anti-Federalists were also worried about the judicial branch, as they feared that it would be too powerful and could be used to oppress citizens.
This prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful.
The First Political Parties Belief DifferencesThe FederalistsStrong national governmentFear of mob ruleLoose construction (interpretation) of the ConstitutionFavored a national bankEconomy based on manufacturing and shippingThe Democratic-RepublicanLimited national governmentFear of rule by one person or a powerful fewStrict construction (interpretation) of the ConstitutionOpposed national bankEconomy based on farming
The Federalist promise to support the creation of a Bill of Rights helped to weaken their opposition. The biggest fear of the Antifederalists was that a massive and powerful federal government as contemplated by the Constitution of 1789 would be able to take away people's liberties. Since a Bill of Rights would protect people's liberties from the government, this helped to offset the strength of that argument.
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.
To form a new government that wasn't strong because they just got rid of a to powerful government.
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Alexander Hamilton and friends compiled a reasonably mass-circulated piece of work that was called The Federalist, back in Revolutionary times. Federalist, like most modern magazines was numbered Federalist no.7 and so on. Hamilton edited this - well, let us call it what it was- Magazine. He was also a Lawyer and Artillery officer in the revolution ( Battle of Princeton). Hamilton also founded the Treasury and the Coast Guard. Some say his Federalist platform was the forerunner of the modern Republican party line- Strong central government, powerful defenses, and so on.
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Jefferson wasn't a federalist. He believed that there shouldn't be a powerful central government and in many ways was a true revolutionary. He wanted to reduce the means and the power of government.
The importance of a strong central government
Are you talking about Alexander Hamilton, the man on the 10 dollar bill? He didn't want to govern anyone. ^^ That's not what this person was asking. He wanted the rich to be in charge of the government.
An Anti-Federalist is someone who opposed the ratification of the United States Constitution during the late 1700s. They believed that the Constitution would create an even more powerful federal government that would threaten the rights and liberties of the people. Anti-Federalists wanted to keep the government decentralized and argued that a strong federal government would lead to tyranny and the loss of state-level autonomy. They also feared that the Constitution would lead to an imbalance of power between the states and the federal government. Their primary arguments against the Constitution were that it lacked a Bill of Rights to protect citizens from the government, and that it created a federal government with too much power. They argued that the government should be limited to specific and enumerated powers and that the states should retain their sovereignty. Anti-Federalists were also worried about the judicial branch, as they feared that it would be too powerful and could be used to oppress citizens.
In the adoption of the Bill of Rights.
This prevents one branch of government from becoming too powerful.