Ratification of the Constitution

Ratified by 9

Selected state conventions

Popular consent

Side step opposition

Federalists v Anti - Federalists

Federalists

Supporters of Constitution

Increased central power

Anti - Federalists

Small farmers

Men of property

Planters, merchants and lawyers

Isolated regions

Was not a class division

Every town had a Federalist majority

Poor men

Artisans

Labourers

Lack of engagement in commercial trading

Criticisms of the constitutiton

Exceeded mandate

Destroy state sovereignty

States were representative

Deplored absence of Bill of Rights

Suspicious of central power

Advantages

Specific solutions

Strong in towns

Washington and Franklin

Newspapers

Easily achieved

Pennsylvania

New Jersey

Georgia

Delaware

Connecticut

46 - 23

Massachusetts

Adams and Hancock

Anti - federalist

Changed sides

187 - 168

Maryland, South Carolina, New Hampshire

Last states needed

New Hampshire

Anti - Federalist

Adjourned until June

Drunk opponents

Virginia

Evenly balanced

Letters from a Federal Farmer

Henry Lee

89 - 79

Washington support

Madison advocacy

Promise fro Bill of Rights

New York

Jay and Madison

Adoption of Constitution in Federalist Papers

Lack of influence

Virginia decision

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