Federalists and Anti-Federalists

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• Who were the Anti-Federalists?
• Who were the Federalists?
• Why did the Framers choose a federalist system of government?
• What were Federalist reasons for supporting ratification of the Constitution?
• Who were the most important Antifederalists?
• Which two major political leaders organized the opposition to the Federalists?
• The policies of which early political party favored banking, business, and a strong federal government?
• What did the Alien and Sedition Acts do?
• Why did Federalists want to go to war against France?
• Who led the Anti-Federalist movement?
• The Alien and Sedition Acts showed how different which two political parties were?
• Do you think the Federalists or the Antifederalists had the more valid arguments?
• How did the Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans differ in their opinion of how the Constitution should be interpreted?
• Who were the authors of the Federalist Papers?
• Does the Constitution protect the institutions of government?
• Why did small states oppose the Virginia Plan?
• Who wrote the majority of the eighty-five essays in the Federalist?
• Why did the Antifederalists propose a Bill of Rights?
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• What was the purpose of the Federalist papers and who wrote them?
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• What is the role of government to the Federalist?
• How did the Federalists argued that the new government created by the Constitution would strengthen and protect the United States?
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• What is the difference of the views between the Federalists and the Anti-federalists?