Differences And Similarities Between Democratic-Republicans And Anti-Federalists

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Democratic-Republican and Federalists are two names of two major groups during the time the before the constitution was ratified until a little after. Democratic-Republicans believed in a loose construction of the constitution, while federalists the opposite. Federalists supported a federalism, while Democratic-Republicans favored a Democratic Republicanism. A Democratic Republicanism is a government in which the rights of the people are very important. Federalism is the gathering of a government with one main head, the exact thing the Democratic-Republicans feared. Democratic-Republicans (anti-federalists) supported state and individual rights, along with a fear or tyranny. The two groups opposed each other but the Federalists tried to fix the issues which were mentioned by the Anti-Federalists. The two groups may have clashed and had many differences, though both came together and tried to compromise for the greater good of creating a new government that will last hundreds of years. The Democratic-Republicans feared a tyranny. They believed that such a large republic could never be governed and United truly without a tyrant. The federalists arguement that the government's power was limited and controlled through …show more content…

They were scared that the federalists' idea of creating separate state and federal government would take all the states rights and it would not allow for any states to make their own decisions. They also saw that the states agreed with them and saw this as an issue. To fix this, the federalists separated everyone into smaller factions and the factions got split and that's how they claimed the power would be more even and equal throughout the states. The federalists tried to make it better but made it worse and didn't fix it whatsoever. The states' rights became no stronger not weaker than they already