At the time when the Constitution of the United States of America was being crafted, there was a certain group of people who were opposing the Constitution (for whatsoever reasons) and in opposition to that group, there was another group who fully supported the proposal of the Constitution. The former group of people was known as the Anti-Federalists while the latter group was referred to as the Federalists.
There were two main criticisms due to which the Anti-Federalists were not willing or were too reticent to accept and support the Constitution. Firstly, it considered the Constitution to be vesting too much of power in the hands of the national government. Secondly it opposed the Constitution because it lacked a Bill of Rights that could provide the citizens of the United States with basic understood privileges like freedom of speech or religion.
As for the Federalists, they included most of those people who had helped to write the Constitution. They presented rational arguments in a series of essays called 'the Federalist', which was written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, while highlighting the failure of the Articles of Confederation. However the Federalists agreed with the Anti-Federalists on the idea that a Bill of Rights should be added to the US Constitution.
There were two main criticisms due to which the Anti-Federalists were not willing or were too reticent to accept and support the Constitution. Firstly, it considered the Constitution to be vesting too much of power in the hands of the national government. Secondly it opposed the Constitution because it lacked a Bill of Rights that could provide the citizens of the United States with basic understood privileges like freedom of speech or religion.
As for the Federalists, they included most of those people who had helped to write the Constitution. They presented rational arguments in a series of essays called 'the Federalist', which was written by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, while highlighting the failure of the Articles of Confederation. However the Federalists agreed with the Anti-Federalists on the idea that a Bill of Rights should be added to the US Constitution.
