Ratifying the Constitution - Federalists vs. Antifederalists

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  1. 3. A series of _____ essays written by John Jay, James Madison, And Alexander Hamilton
  2. 4. Melcam Smith was against the _______
  3. 6. It was important for Virginia and New York to agree since they had a ____ ______
  4. 9. Federalists argued that a strong national government was actually necessary to protect the ___________ rights from being dominated by the majority
  5. 11. Anti Federalists disliked the idea of having an ________ branch since it feels similar to a monarch.
  6. 13. Smith said that "Therefore, the number of representatives should be so large that both rich and poor people will choose to be representatives.” Hamilton replied saying that Greece followed that idea and it became run by mobs and the government was a ________.
  7. 14. The new constitution required ____ out of 13 states to ratify, while the AOC required all thirteen.
  8. 15. The federalists favored shared powers among the _________ branches of government
  9. 17. The last two states to agree to the Constitution were _______ and New York
  10. 18. The federalists promised to create a ___ __ _______ in order to get the rest of the antifederalist states to agree.
  11. 20. The federalists thought that the ______ _________ should have more power that the state governments
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  1. 1. They also argued that _________ is shared between the national government and state governments.
  2. 2. Antifederalists wanted the _________ branch to have the most power.
  3. 5. At the end, all __ states agreed to the ratification of the constitution
  4. 7. In order to get people to form their own opinion of the Constitution, it was printed in ________
  5. 8. The Constitution was based on the principle of _______
  6. 10. One of the concerns of the Antifederalists was that the ________ were losing power
  7. 12. The Federalist Papers argue that the _________ is better than the Articles of Confederation
  8. 16. The largest contributor to the Federalist Papers, having wrote 51/86 essays was _________ ___________
  9. 19. Antifederalists thought that the constitution would strip the people of their __________