-Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Argument (1788)
–an excerpt from The Federalist No. 51 by James Madison (1787)
–Chapter 7 of Give Me LIberty!
To address the following question:
What major issues or ideological tensions did the debate over the Constitution reveal?
In order to answer that larger question, our discussion will need to consider:
What were the major arguments against the Constitution put forth by the Anti-Federalists?
What were the major arguments in support of the Constitution put forth by the Federalists?
What were the events and historical circumstances that influenced each argument?
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