Pros And Cons Of Being Ratified

At one point in time many people were debating whether to ratify the Constitution, people took sides and some were supporters while others were opponents. The supporters and opponents both had major arguments and debates about whether the Constitution should or should not be ratified. The supporters major argument was that America has many problems and the only way to fix these problems is to ratify the Constitution, whereas the opponents major argument was that the new Constitution had too much major change and did not protect America’s citizens. The supporters mostly felt as though the current Constitution has many problems and common men across the United States struggle and complain because of the current Constitution. The supporters also felt that the current Constitution was made too much by people who did not know how to run a
In Document 1 the author says, “Let us look and [see] the [problems that exist] in every part of our country . . . the complaints of our farmers . . . the complaints of every class of [people who loan money] . . . the [sad] faces of our working people . . . our ships rotting in our harbors . . . the insults that are [made against America] in every court in Europe”. The author who was a supporter of the Constitution being ratified talks about how many problems that the United States has under the current Constitution and he feels that the only way the problems can be solved is too ratify the Constitution. George Washington feels that people thought that they knew too much about how a confederation works when the first