Who are they? Federalists or Anti-Federalists?

Patrick Henry once said, "Your President (central government) may easily become king. Your rights will be in the hands of a small minority." HENRY must have been a....

• Anti-Federalist

• Federalist

Wanted to strengthen the authority of the Federal government.

• Federalist

• Ant-Federalist

Federalists

• Patrick Henry

• Alexander Hamilton

• John Jay

• James Madison

Anti-Federalists

• George Mason

• Alexander Hamilton

• Patrick Henry

• James Madison

"Father of the U.S. Constititution"

• George Washington

• Alexander Hamilton

• Patrick Henry

• James Madison

Federalist wrote essays called the Federalist Papers. What might they have supported?

• Bill of Rights

• Strong central government

• Three-fifths compromise

• Women's Suffrage (voting)

Anti-Federlalist want to add a bill of rights to protect...

• Individual freedoms

• State rights

• Women's suffrage

• Direct democracy

•“It must be by this time evident to all men…that (the Articles of Confederation) is a system so radically vicious and unsound as to admit….an entire change.”

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists

•“Our country is too large to have all affairs directed by a single government.”

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists

•“The small landowners are the most precious part of the state.”

• Anti-Federalists

• Federalists