1. Ratifying the Constitution

2. EQ
Should there be a written document like a Bill of Rights in the Constitution guaranteeing your rights? Or is it just understood what your rights are and nobody can take those away?

3. Federalism
Separate powers but also shared powers between the Federal and State governments

4. Federalists
People who supported the ratification of the Constitution

5. Anti-Federalists
People who opposed the ratification of the Constitution
Thought the Constitution took too much power away from the states
Afraid a strong president would declare himself king
Congress might obtain too much power
Really afraid of losing what they had fought for during the Rev. War

6. Federalist Papers
James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay wrote these papers
The papers were an attempt to gain support for the Constitution

7. Federalists Anti-Federalists
Remove some powers from the states and give more to the national government
Wanted important political powers to remain with the states
Favored dividing the powers of government into separate branches of government
Wanted the legislative branch to be stronger than the executive branch (afraid of a president becoming a tyrant)
Proposed a single person to lead the executive branch
Believed a bill of rights needed to be added to the Constitution to protect peoples rights

8. Ratification Ratification started in December 1787
Wasn’t ratified until 1790
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, and New Hampshire- the first 9

9. Bill of Rights
Anti-Federalists saw that if a citizens rights are not written down they could be taken at any moment
Would you agree or disagree?

11. Should specific rights be written down so that everyone know what their rights are and no one can easily take them away or does everyone just know what their rights are?