Federalists, most notably, Publius, argued it would be easier to protect liberty in a large and diverse republic.” (Keene, Cornell, & O’Donnell, 2013) Another fear and argument was that “Virginia’s George Mason, who was less concerned about the Constitution’s antidemocratic features and more worried about the centralization of power. Mason feared that liberty would be annihilated if a central government gained too much power.” (Keene, Cornell and O’Donnell, 2013). Ratification sparked some interesting publications and occasional acts of vandalism however the debate over ratification continued until, “June1788, when New Hampshire brought the total number of states that had approved the document to the required threshold of nine.” (Maier, 2010) difficulty now was getting anti-federalists to accept and abide by the new law.
It is believed that the success in ratification of the Constitution hangs on the success of The great Compromise which was a series of trial and errors itself, the system in which the senate would represent each state large or small including the black