• Objective: Today you will demonstrate your ability to comprehend the battle to ratify the Constitution by taking notes

• Warm Up: If there was a Bill of Rights for teenagers, what three rights would you include and why?

Ratification of the Constitution

Federalists & Federalists & AntifederalistsAntifederalists

• Antifederalists—people who opposed the Constitution

• Federalists—people who supported the Constitution

• The Federalist Papers– 85 essays written in support of

the Constitution• Goes into effect in June 1788• May 1790: all states ratify it

Demanding the Bill of Demanding the Bill of RightsRights

• Antifederalists:– Did not believe Constitution would

protect personal freedoms– Demand bill of rights

• Federalists:– State constitutions promised rights– Document written to protect rights

• Madison understood bill of rights needed for ratification– September 1789: Congress

proposes 12 amendments– December 1791: 10 of 12

amendments ratified

Other AmendmentsOther Amendments

• 13th - Abolished slavery

• 15th – Voting Rights

• 20th - Limits Child Labor

• 22nd – 2 terms only as President

• 26th – Right to vote at 18

Cool DownCool Down• Would you have been a Would you have been a

Federalist or an Anti-Federalist or an Anti-Federalist? Explain why in 1-2 Federalist? Explain why in 1-2 sentences.sentences.