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Federalists and Anti-Federalists
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The Constitution
• The Electoral College• In what way was the Electoral College a
compromise?-Question Ch.9 Study Guide, II.4
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How was slavery addressed in the Constitution?
• -in apportioning direct taxes and in according representation in the House of Representatives, slaves would count as three-fifths of a person (three-fifths compromise).
• the slave trade could not be touched until 1807 (at that time, Congress banned it).
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Table 9-2 p173
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In what ways did the Constitution seek to erect barriers against “mobocracy?”
• federal judges were appointed for life• the president was to be indirectly elected by
the Electoral College• senators were to be chosen indirectly by state
legislatures
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What democratic elements existed in the Constitution?
• it was based on two main principles of republicanism- government was based on the consent of the governed and the powers of government should be limited
• the virtue of the people, not the authority of the state, was to be the ultimate guarantor of liberty, justice, and order: “We the people”
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Who were the Federalists and Anti-Federalists?
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Map 9-4 p174
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Federalists
• Generally lived along the seaboard• Generally wealthier, more educated, and
better organized than the Anti-Federalists.
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Anti-Federalists
• Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee• Generally states’ rights proponents,
backcountry people, small farmers• Generally the poorest classes
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Anti-FederalistArguments
• the Constitution was written by aristocratic elements of society and was undemocratic
• sovereignty of the states were being submerged• freedoms of the individual were jeopardized by the
lack of a bill of rights• loss of annual elections for congressional
representatives, the creation of a federal stronghold (later D.C.), the creation of a standing army, the omission of any reference to God, and the procedure of ratification with only two-thirds of the states.
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• The promise to add a bill of rights swayed some Anti-Federalists
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• June 1788 the Constitution was officially adopted
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Table 9-3 p175
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p176
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What do the authors mean when they say, “The minority had
triumphed- twice”?• -a militant minority of American radicals and
engineered the military Revolution. Now a minority of conservatives (embracing some of the earlier radicals) had engineered a peaceful revolution that overthrew the Articles of Confederation.
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What do the authors mean by “Conservatism was victorious?”
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• Can the Constitution be considered both a radical departure from the Articles of Confederation and a conservative document at the same time?