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American Government Week 4 Part III Ratification Controversy
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2. Federalists & Anti-federalists
3. Federalists & Anti-Federalists
4. How many states needed to approve it in order to ratify it? 5. Federalists & Anti-Federalists
6. How many states needed to approve it in order to ratify it? 7. Nine, but they wanted a unanimous approval 8. Federalist Papers What were they? 9. Federalists & Anti-Federalists
10. How many states needed to approve it in order to ratify it? 11. Nine, but they wanted a unanimous approval 12. Federalist Papers What were they? 13. - a series of letters supporting ratification that written under the pseudonym Publius which means the people or the common people 14. Who actually wrote these letters? 15. Federalists & Anti-Federalists
16. How many states needed to approve it in order to ratify it? 17. Nine, but they wanted a unanimous approval 18. Federalist Papers What were they? 19. - a series of 85 newspaper articles supporting ratification that were written under the pseudonym Publius which means the people or the common people 20. Who actually wrote these articles? 21. - Alexander Hamilton (New York), James Madison (Virginia) and John Jay (New York); easy to do since they all lived on Wall St. in NYC at the time 22. Anti-Federalists
23. Anti-Federalists
24. Who were they? 25. Anti-Federalists
26. Who were they? 27. - Cato = George Clinton (New York), Brutus & Sydney 28. - Patrick Henry (VA), George Mason (VA), Elbridge Gerry (MA) 29. The Main Issues
30. The Main Issues
31. The Main Issues
32. The Main Issues
33. The Main Issues
34. - govt would assume authority in any area not specified in the BOR (such as the right to eat what you want?!!!) 35. The Main Issues
36. The Main Issues
37. Compromise
38. Ratification
39. Two most contentious & important convention battles? 40. Ratification
41. Two most contentious & important convention battles? 42. - Virginia (ratified June 25, 1788 43. - New York (ratified July 26 1788) 44. Which state was the last to approve the Constitution? 45. Ratification
46. Two most contentious & important convention battles? 47. - Virginia (ratified June 25, 1788 48. - New York (ratified July 26 1788) 49. Which state was the last to approve the Constitution? 50. - Rhode Island, who didn't even send any delegates to the Constitutional Convention 51. Note: George Washington took office on April 30, 1789 even though North Carolina & Rhode Island had not voted yet 52. Who was right?
53. - The Federalists agreed to send suggested amendments that would serve as a BOR along with the Constitution to the various state ratification conventions.They also promised to pass this BOR as soon as the Constitution was ratified.They held true to this promise. 54. Hindsight: What Do You Think?
55. Were the Anti-Federalists right to oppose it? 56. What could the Founding Fathers have done differently? 57. How could/can the national govt be restrained and more power returned to the states? Or is this impossible at this point?