MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW US GOVERNMENT
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Republicans
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Democrats
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Federalists
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Detailed explanation-1: -Those who supported the Constitution and a stronger national republic were known as Federalists. Those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in favor of small localized government were known as Anti-Federalists.
Detailed explanation-2: -concerns that republican government could not work in a land the size of the United States; and their most successful argument against the adoption of the Constitution-the lack of a bill of rights to protect individual liberties.
Detailed explanation-3: -Federalists believed that a stronger national government would improve relationships between states and help create, as the Constitution stated, a “more perfect union.” Anti-Federalists, on the other hand, worried that a federal government with more power would be prone to tyranny.