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Fedaralists and Antifedaralists Chapter
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History
8th Grade
11/07/2011

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George Mason
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Antifederalist
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Alexander Hamilton
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Federalist
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Wanted a Bill of Rights
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Antifederalist
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John Jay
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Federalist
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James Madison
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Federalist
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"...government...never can extend equal benefit to all parts of the United States. Different laws, customs, and options exist in different states, which by a uniform system of laws would be unreasonably invaded."
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Antifederalist
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Wanted the legislative branch to be more powerful than the executive branch.
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Antifederalist
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"Federalist Papers"
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Federalist
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Wanted the Constitution to be ratified.
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Federalist
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Favored dividing power among different branches.
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Federalist
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Wanted a single person to lead the executive branch.
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Federalist
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"a bill of rights...serves to secure the minority against the usurpation and tyranny of the majority"
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Antifederalist
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wanted the important powers to remain with the states
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Antifederalist
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Most newspapers
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Federalist
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"I am against inserting a declaration of rights in the Constitution...If such an addition is not dangerous, it is at least unnecesssary."
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Federalist
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"The...new form of government...declares a consolidation ofr union of all the thirteen parts, or states into one great whole...It is an intuitive truth that a consolidated republican form of government[will lead]...into monarch, either limited or despotic."
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Antifederalist
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"This country should never split into a number of unsocial, jealous, and alien sovereignties."
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Federalist
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Patrick Henry
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Antifederalist
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