Were The Arguments Against Ratification Justified

AGAINST RATIFICATION

Anti-federalist had the stronger argument because the government was going to be too much like the British government which had too much power, violated the citizens' natural rights, and there was no bill of rights.

Who are the Anti-federalists? They were people who were against ratification. Most people that were anti-federalist were mostly farmers, so they were poor. Federalists were in favor of the ratification. Most people that were Federalist were businessmen and New Englanders, which meant they were rich. How did the British government have too much power? Under the Constitution, lots of power was taken away from the people and given to the federal government. The British government was also violating a citizen’s
Singletray, a poor person, is also scared it will turn into the British government, which is hell for him and the other peasants. Their reasons why the British government was bad were because the rich had all the power and the poor had none. Britain has too much power over everyone and everything! Amos Singletary represented the farmers in Massachusetts because he was a farmer and life was hard and someone had to do something about it. On January 25, 1788 Singletary made a speech which said “We [fought] with Great Britain.because they claimed a right to tax us and bind us in all cases.does not this Constitution do the same? These lawyers and men of learning and moneyed men, that talk so finely and gloss over matters so smoothly, to make us poor [uneducated] people swallow down the pill, expect to get into Congress themselves.” (Doc A). What is Singletary saying? Rich men made it easy to make issues seem unimportant and made the poor accept what they were saying. This quote helps explain the main idea by saying how the rich had more power than the poor and how the British government was
The Americans just fought a war against a distant/far away and out-of-touch central government in Britain which violated the rights of the common people? The quote explains how most Americans fear the thought of a new central government. “Many Americans feared the creation of a new central government. They thought it would be out of touch with the common people. Hadn’t they just fought a war against a distant/far away and out-of-touch central government in Britain? Hadn’t this powerful central government violated the rights of the common people?” This quote means many Americans feared creating a new central government would be out of touch with the common people. They thought this because they just fought a war against a distant/far away and out-of-touch central government in Britain which violated the rights of the common people? This quote helps explain that they were against ratification because it would violate the citizen’s natural rights by saying how the old government violated the rights of the common people. This side had a better argument because it shows how the British violated citizens' natural rights. It shows how the Constitution would help preserve natural