Patrick Henry's Speech Against Ratification
Writing Prompt 2
A newly developed constitution brought upon adverse opinions as to its “new republic form being as enshrined” as well as it being a “danger”. Both oppositional and approval views were discussed within Madison Federalist No. 10 and Patrick Henry’s Speech against Ratification.
Patrick Henry viewed the new constitution with an opposition in which he believed that it gave too much power to the central government at the expense of the state governments. His fear, and great anti-federalist views were rooted in his assumption that in the long term, officials wound inevitably misappropriate and abuse the power granted to them. “Did we not know of the fallibility of human nature,” he told the Richmond delegates, “we might rely on
A newly developed constitution brought upon adverse opinions as to its “new republic form being as enshrined” as well as it being a “danger”. Both oppositional and approval views were discussed within Madison Federalist No. 10 and Patrick Henry’s Speech against Ratification.
Patrick Henry viewed the new constitution with an opposition in which he believed that it gave too much power to the central government at the expense of the state governments. His fear, and great anti-federalist views were rooted in his assumption that in the long term, officials wound inevitably misappropriate and abuse the power granted to them. “Did we not know of the fallibility of human nature,” he told the Richmond delegates, “we might rely on