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3 days ago · The membership of the new Congress was decidedly federalist. In the eleven-state (minus North Carolina and Rhode Island) Senate 20 were Federalist and two Anti-federalist (both from Virginia). The House included 48 Federalists and 11 Anti-federalists (from four states: Massachusetts, New York, South Carolina, and Virginia).
4 days ago · Anti-Federalist Papers A series of articles, essays, speeches and pamphlets written by those opposed to the ratification of the Constitution. Main arguments against the document included too much power given to the federal government at the expense of the states and the lack of a Bill of Rights guaranteeing individual freedoms.
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2 days ago · 4. Federalist Papers. The Federalist Papers are a collection of 85 essays written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay during 1787 and 1788. These essays were penned with the purpose of advocating for the ratification of the newly drafted Constitution by the states.
17 hours ago · The Federalist Papers; Anti-Federalist Papers ... By this distinction the troops which served in the American Revolution were auxiliaries. ... Gordon Wood states: The ...
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3 days ago · Among those opposed to ratification were many small farmers in the North. As this letter written by "A Countryman from Dutchess County [upstate New York]" indicates, Anti-Federalists were concerned about provisions for the establishment of a "standing army" and the absence of a bill of rights.
1 day ago · The Federalist Party was a nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States. It dominated the national government under Alexander Hamilton from 1789 to 1801. The party was defeated by the Democratic-Republican Party in 1800, and it became a minority party while keeping its stronghold in New England.
17 hours ago · Madison’s contributions to the Federalist Papers, a compendium of 85 treatises co-authored with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, were pivotal in securing the ratification of the Constitution. These dissertations, particularly Madison’s expositions on factions and the division of powers, endure as bedrock tenets of American political theory.
