MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE RATIFICATION OF THE CONSTITUTION AND THE NEW US GOVERNMENT
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To strengthen the authority of the federal government
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To improve the organization of the judiciary
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To give each state an equal amount of power
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To protect individual freedoms from the federal government
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the 1787 U.S. Constitution because they feared that the new national government would be too powerful and thus threaten individual liberties, given the absence of a bill of rights.
Detailed explanation-4: -Anti-Federalists feared that without a bill of rights the Constitution would not protect the rights of the people or of the states, making their federal government too powerful.