The Ratification of the Constitution

It was difficult to ratify the Constitution for many different reasons.  The first reason is that the people thought that the delegates in Philadelphia that created the Constitution exceeded their congressional authority.  The second reason is that the delegates in Philadelphia only represented only the elite and not poor or uneducated.  The third reason gave to much power too the central government at the expense of the states.  Finally, the fourth reason is the Constitution had failed to adopt a bill of rights which would have protected the people from the government.

The group of people that opposed the Constitution were the Anti-federalists.  They brought the issues above to the people using the newspaper and pamphlets.  The group that defended the Constitution was called the Federalists.  They fought back by also using the newspaper and pamphlets.  They successfully put down most of the criticism proposed by the Anti-federalists. The main problem was that the bill of rights had not been accepted into the Constitution yet.  The Federalists countered this by stating that once the Constitution was ratified a bill of rights would be created.  





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