of this is due to the Federalist ideas present by our first President George Washington‚ and other prominent founding fathers such as Alexander Hamilton and John Jay. The Federalist position‚ which supported a strong central government favoring power to the national or federal government‚ was very prominent in the early days‚ however it was not unopposed. With the growing power of the national government‚ those known as Anti-Federalists entered the picture. Anti-Federalists favored power to the
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SECTION I. Public Opinion and Pol. Socialization (Chapter 6) 1. Public Opinion is the collective belief of citizens on a given issue or question at a given point of time. (slide 3) or viewed as politically relevant opinions held by ordinary citizens that they can express openly (in text) 2. Attitude is a preference which relates to something very specific as: -An issue (abortion‚ death penalty war in Iraq) -A person (Bush‚ Obama‚ Boehner‚ Romney) -An institution ( Fed. Reserve‚ Congress
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count slaves as 3/5 the population to help the House of Representatives and its electoral votes. When it came to the federalists they had favored ratification. Three main people were involved in this federalists group which were alexander Hamilton‚ James Madison‚ and john jay. These three federalist had all wrote essays that discussed the constitution and its regulations. Federalists defended the constitutions
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now in place causing a big ordeal of fighting between the federalists led by Andrew Hamilton and the Anti-Federalists led by Thomas Jefferson. These two factions would soon form the two political parties which are still in effect today. These two parties did not just appear out of the blue; political‚ economic‚ foreign and democratic factors all played a role in the development of the two separate political parties. Politically the Federalists were a powerful and wealthy party. Mostly lawyers‚ big
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The debate between federalists and anti-federalists was very intense during the time the constitution was ratified. The anti-federalists wished to prevent a surplus of power in the national government by giving states the supreme power. Federalists wanted a larger central government for a good military and law enforcement. The anti-federalists had the most liberty under their form of government. One problem the federalists had with their form of government was that it would allow the majority to
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The Federalists Papers were made to explain why the central powers should be more powerful than state powers and how the central powers should be the supreme or absolute power‚ and the Anti-Federalists papers were made to oppose these views and explain why the state powers and the central powers should still have be equal. The response by the Federalists was more persuasive. The Federalists Paper #10 was written by James Madison. The document was titled “The Union Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection”
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political tension between the Federalist and Antifederalist about how the country would be governed. More Specifically‚ Shalhope argues that the Federalist thought that educated people should run the government and that the central government should have more power. While the Anti Federalists argued that the common people should be elected into the government‚ wealth should be widespread amongst the population‚ and that the state government should have more powers. The Federalists were mainly wealthy merchants
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supported the ratification were the Federalists‚ and those who opposed were known as the Anti- Federalists. Federalists believed in the idea of a strong central government while on the other hand Anti- federalists wanted their own states to have the right to set their own laws. The federalists group in which James Madison was advocated with‚ composed essays known as The Federalist Papers along with Alexander Hamilton and John Jay in which Madison wrote Federalist Number 10. Therefore‚ Madison imposes
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By the beginning of the nineteenth century‚ the Republicans and Federalists had developed into two distinct political parties. The controversy over the constitutionality of the First Bank of the United States gave rise to two different interpretations of the Constitution. While the Jeffersonian Republicans held a strict-constructionist view of the Constitution‚ the Federalists took on a broad-constructionist view of the Constitution. These became defining characteristics of the two political parties
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Dr. Nardi Euro HW4 1. Q: Explain the nature and outcome of the Greek independence movement. What other results emerged from the Near Easter crisis of the late 1820s? A: The Greeks had been under the domination of the Ottoman Turks since 1815. A sense of unity between the Greeks still survived and caused nationalism and a desire for independence. In 1821‚ Alexander Ypsilanti led a revolt. The Greek Powers‚ especially Metternich‚ refused to support Ypsilanti because they were against revolution
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