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When comparing and contrasting Anti-Federalist views on the ratification of the United States Constitution with those of the Federalists, one must also consider the inherent relationship that represents their respective views upon principles, problems and solutio ....

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.... either take place or should not, depending upon which group one supported. As a collective work, each side cited significant points that clearly illustrated their agendas. The Federalists, however, seem to have struck a chord more influential in the minds of the citizens. This not only because their attempts to rally a political consensus on their behalf seemed to have been a step ahead as well as more organized, but possibly more so because the Anti-Federalists failed to substantially prove that small republics were better able to sustain individual liberties than were large republics. The Anti-Federalists were defiantly opposed to any ratificatio ....