1.06 Compare viewpoints about government in the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist Papers

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1.06 Compare viewpoints about government in the
Federalist and the Anti-Federalist Papers
Patrick Henry Anti-Federalist
Alexander Hamilton Federalist
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Federalists and Anti-Federalists
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Federalists and Anti-Federaliststhe two factions
that disagreed about the new Constitution of 1787

• powerful central govt
• separation of powers into Legislative, Executive,
  and Judicial
• checks and balances, for example the veto, Senate
  approves Presidential appointments,...

• states rights, states more powerful than the
  central govt
• unicameral, weak govt is preferred
• checks and balances not needed, central govt is
  weak

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Federalists and Anti-Federalists

• Loose interpretation of the Constitution
• wrote The Federalist Papers, 85 newspaper
  articles explaining the advantages of the new
  Constitution that created a powerful central
  government

• strict interpretation of the Constitution
• wrote a few Anti-Federalist Papers
• demanded a Bill of Rights added to the
  Constitution to limit the power of the new,
  central government

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Federalists and Anti-Federalists

• agreed to add a Bill of Rights in exchange for
  votes to ratify the new Constitiution of 1787
• the Constitution of 1787 was adopted after Va and
  NY voted to ratify it

• the Anti-Federalists voted to ratify and worked
  to get the 1st 10 Amendments, the Bill of Rights,
  added in 1791 to the new Constitution