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
country and keep a country united, supporters felt as though the people who wrote the Constitution did not know enough about a Confederation.
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
Constitution was written so he said, “We have errors to correct. We have probably had too good an opinion of human nature in forming our confederation”. Many people who supported the new Constitution felt that when the first Constitution was written people did not know how a confederation should be.
On the other hand, the people who oppose ratifying had the major argument that the ratified Constitution did not support the basic rights of citizens. In Document 4 it states, “The rights of conscience , trial by jury, liberty of press...are rendered insecure”. Patrick Henry who wrote this claims that trial by jury and liberty of press are not present in the Constitution that is trying to be ratified. Many people who opposed the Constitution were concerned that people would not have their basic rights as Document 2 says, “There is no security in the system [under the proposed new U.S. Constitution] either for the rights of [people with different ideas] or the liberty of the press”. Mercy Otis Warren was concerned that there was no security under the new Constitution being opposed and this was a major argument for people who were against the new Constitution.
Many people had different opinions of whether the Constitution should be ratified or not and so people who opposed it made major arguments as well as people who supported the ratification of the Constitution.