Constitution Summary: The Conflict Over The Constitution

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Feniben Patel “The Conflict over the Constitution” The United States is known as the land of freedom, which permits, everyone to have their own opinions, and allows everyone to be able to convey them to others, this is permitted by the Constitution. The founding fathers had many contrasting point of views, regarding the formation of the Constitution. Patrick Henry, and James Madison had very diverse point of view, with regards to the government of the recently independent colonies. The United States government is based on federalism. Federalism is a system of government in which the national and the state government share the power to govern its people. After the French and Indian war, which concluded in 1763, England was in debt. To pay the …show more content…

There were who favored the federalist system, while others were anti- federalist. Federalist were those who supported the idea of states and national government sharing the power to govern, Anti-federalist were those who were against the Constitution, because the Constitution was based on federalism. James Madison and Patrick Henry were part of the fifty-five men who attended the meeting in Philadelphia, in 1787. Patrick Henry, was an Anti Federalist. Anti Federalist feared that if the national government gains too much power, and it would became a threat to the people, like the British Parliament was. Patrick Henry’s family was not as rich like families of other founding fathers. Patrick Henry received an ordinary, but he spend most of his time in the wood, learning basic survival techniques (Pg 69). He also gave the very famous, speech “Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death” in 1775 (pg 69). Most Anti Federalist were loyal was towards the state and not towards the national government. Patrick Henry believed the federalist were “rich and the elite”, and wanted the power for themselves (pg 74). Patrick Henry said in a speech to virginia convention on june 4

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