Federalists vs Anti-Federalists

Quote #1 “All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born; the other, the mass of people…. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore the first class a ….permanent share in the government….they therefore will ever maintain good government.”

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Quote #2 “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.”

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Quote #3 “Our country is too large to have all affairs directed by a single government.”

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Quote #4 “The small landowners are the most precious part of the state.”

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Quote #5 “I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.’ To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition.” 

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Quote #6 “The powers contained in the constitution….ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good.”

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Quote #7 “I am not among those who fear the people.  They, not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.”

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Quote #8 "I had rather be a free citizen of the small republic of Massachusetts, than an oppressed subject of the great American empire."

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Quote #9 “Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction.”

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Quote #10 “When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

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