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  1. 3 days ago · Constitutional Topic: The Federalists and Anti-Federalists The Constitutional Topics pages at the USConstitution.net site are presented to delve deeper into topics than can be provided on the Glossary Page or in the FAQ pages. This Topic Page concerns the Federalists versus the Anti-Federalists and the struggle for ratification. Generally speaking, the federalists were in favor […]

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  3. 5 days ago · The ratification of the United States Constitution was the subject of intense debate between 1787 and 1789. One particularly controversial issue was the Three Fifths Compromise, which settled how enslaved people would be counted for purposes of representation and taxation. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia had agreed ...

  4. 4 days ago · Speaking as a delegate before the state's ratification convention in 1788, Amos Singletary, a farmer from Worchester County, Massachusetts, voiced some of the concerns of his constituency. Chief among these are fears that the new government's ability to levy taxes and "impost" (import) duties would harm debt-saddled farmers who barely eked an ...

  5. 3 days ago · Politics portal. v. t. e. Antifa ( / ænˈtiːfə, ˈænti ( ˌ) fə /) is a left-wing anti-fascist and anti-racist political movement in the United States. It consists of a highly decentralized array of autonomous groups that use nonviolent direct action, incivility, or violence to achieve their aims.

  6. 3 days ago · The Democratic Party is one of the two major political parties of the United States political system and the oldest active political party in the country as well as in the world. The Democratic party was founded in 1828. [24] [25] [26] It is also the oldest active voter-based political party in the world. The party has changed significantly ...

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  7. 5 days ago · su· prem· a· cy clause. sə-ˈpre-mə-sē-. often capitalized S&C. : a clause in Article VI of the U.S. Constitution that declares the constitution, laws, and treaties of the federal government to be the supreme law of the land to which judges in every state are bound regardless of state law to the contrary.

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