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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