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A Nation Begins (Ratification (Anti-federalists: State sovereign. Failed…
A Nation Begins
Ratification
Anti-federalists: State sovereign. Failed because they had no counter plan.
September 17, 1787
Federalists: + constitution
No Bill of Rights: tyrannical gov
Goes to state conventions
Delaware was the first to ratify(unanimously 1787); Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, and New Hampshire.
Constitution
Amendments
No Bill of Rights
Checks and Balances
Independent Judiciary
Senator Flake: "Mr. President, I rise today to say: Enough"
The Cabinet
Secretary of State: Thomas Jefferson vs Rex Tillerson
Secretary of Treasury: Alexander Hamilton vs Steve Mnuchin
Secretary of Defense(war): Henry Knox vs James Mattis
Attorney General: Edmund Randolph vs Jeff Sessions
President vs King
"ruling" time aka term
not hereditary
Rural start to rebel
Articles by Brutus and Cato in NY newspapers
Hamilton begins the federalist papers
John Jay, James Madison
anti-federalist papers
Bill of Rights: Madison
Wins over Virginia
1789: Republic
Federalism
Rump parliament
Anti-federalists: Patrick Henry "we the people, instead of the states, of America."
"A plan always beats no plan. Always."
Longest written constitution in world history
"We own our history as bad as it is; we don't walk away from the truth"
"The Law rules this country, not the men."
The fact that they came out with any sort of compromise is a miracle
We're gonna have freedom of speech, so we're gonna criticize everything.
No society can make a perpetual constitution. The earth belongs always to the living generation. The constitution of their predecessors extinguished then in their natural with those who gave them being. 19 years. If it be enforced longer it is an act of force, and not of right.
Inspector of Dead Letters