Constitution Dbq

The assembling of the Constitution was a long and hardening process for the framers to take on their own during the summer of 1787. That being said nothing good is created without a little dispute. Although by the end of the Convention they had established the Constitution, there were still some unsettling ideas that needed to be set straight for the people. These deference's in ideals separated the United States people into the Federalist (supporting the ideas of the Constitution fully without any changes), and the Anti- Federalists (persons who wanted an established and undeniable writing that the rights and liberties of the people were secure among other things). These strains of the people were necessary in order for our Constitution to

To them a weak government is a bad government, as stated by Hamilton in Federalist No. 69 "A feeble executive implies ...a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government." A common idea among them was that the strong government allowed there to be freedoms and liberties for the people because without this government, the people would turn against themselves due to humanities ingrained hostility and mistrust. With this strong government the laws could actually be enforced and provide safety to the common good, providing justice to those whose rights were being diminished by others' destructive manners. The government for

The typical Anti-Federalist belief was that the Constitution did not establish the rights and liberties of the people in writing. It may of alluded to some but did not efficiently provide one hundred percent security in the topic. They feared that this government style might lead to another bad Monarchy like England but Elbridge Gerry did not feel that way. He states in his letter to the Massachusetts State Legislature that "national government... I think it has great merit, and, by proper amendments, may be adapted to the "exigencies of government, and preservation of liberty." He believes that the Constitution has the ability to provide an efficient establishment of liberty if it is amended. He believed that for the people to be securely represented there must be an inclusion of a "Bill of Rights". Many Anti-Federalists at the time agreed with this idea of a Bill of Rights being inducted into the Constitution because the Bill of Rights would guarantee the safety of the people. Gerry says, "while they have the power to amend, they are not under the necessity of rejecting it.", meaning that because the Federalists put in the constitution that it could be subject to change in the future, they should be open-minded to the voices and words of the Anti-Federalists. Gerry brings up a good point when he asks the rhetorical question of, "...cannot this object be better attained