MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
SHAYS REBELLION
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a bill of rights would be added to the original document
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their supporters would receive a fair share of federal government jobs
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the president would be given increased powers
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senators would be elected directly by the people
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Detailed explanation-1: -Nonetheless, historians have concluded that the major Anti-Federalist writers included Robert Yates (Brutus), most likely George Clinton (Cato), Samuel Bryan (Centinel), and either Melancton Smith or Richard Henry Lee (Federal Farmer).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Anti-Federalists claimed the Constitution gave the central government too much power, and without a Bill of Rights the people would be at risk of oppression.
Detailed explanation-3: -Anti-Federalists believed that a bill of rights was needed to prevent the central government from taking rights from states and citizens. They wanted to protect against a central government that was too powerful and could take away the freedoms they had fought a revolution to preserve.
Detailed explanation-4: -Antifederalists argued that a bill of rights was necessary because, the supremacy clause in combination with the necessary and proper and general welfare clauses would allow implied powers that could endanger rights. Federalists rejected the proposition that a bill of rights was needed.