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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Federalist No. 51 By James Madison

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Primary source reading 7.4 is an excerpt from “Federalist NO. 51” which was written in 1788 by James Madison. This excerpt is actually an essay written by Madison and published in the New York Packet that explains how the federal government will not become too powerful as the people think, and trying to convince people to get the constitution ratified. Primary source reading 7.5 is an excerpt from “Observations on the New Constitution and the Federal and State Conventions by a Columbian Patriot” written by Mercy Otis Warren in 1788. This excerpt is actually a pamphlet that was published as well. In this pamphlet, Warren criticizes the Constitution for thinking the federal government will get too much power and tries to get the people to reject …show more content…

Warren was furious at the proposal of this such called Constitution. She argues how they fought for Independence but with this proposal, everything will go back to the old way with Britain and they won’t be independent anymore. Warren feels that all the people are being left out of the “secrecy” of the federal government and with the constitution, they will have more power to be secret, deciding ideas on their own. She is mad that the representatives of the government aren’t corresponding to the people and are making decisions themselves, without the approval or even say of the people. In her eyes, the people aren’t being represented, as they should be. Warren feels she has the people sided with her, saying this, “…yet the voice of the people appears present strong against the adoption of the Constitution…” (76) She is saying that even though other conventions and states have ratified, the peoples’ voices matter and there is still some that reject this Constitution and won’t give in. Warren tries to get people to not ratify it by explaining her conspiracies in this pamphlet, read by the

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