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This is a 3 page paper that provides an overview of some of the most important objections of the ratification of the US Constitution. Issues covered include state's rights, checks and balances, and democracy contra republicanism. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Opposition to the Ratification of the Constitution , 10/2010 VISIT
/aftersale.htm--properly! In todays political environment, originalism, the doctrine that all United States political discourse should proceed in keeping with the original intent
of the writers of the Constitution of the United States, has received a sudden boost in popularity. The vocal rallying cries of the sensationalist Republican offshoot, the "Tea Party", are
presently lobbying for political influence in the upcoming 2010 midterm elections, as well as the pending 2012 Presidential election, on a platform that consists, at least in part, of asserting
the importance of (their conception of) originalist doctrine. This is but one example of how relevant and important the Constitution remains to political discourse in the United States. However, this
all-important document was not ratified without opposition; in fact, there were many viewpoints opposed to the ratification of the Constitution during the 18th century. This paragraph helps the student
present one of the points of contention about the ratification of the Constitution: namely, whether it would lead to class division. A common view of the Constitutional debate is that
it was largely about the division between those who advocated states rights and those who advocated a centralized federal power. In general, it was felt that the agrarian elements of
society, those farmers who tended to side with Jeffersonian democratic principles, opposed the ratification of the Constitution. Indeed, this was often so. Documentation exists that shows that some farmers at
the time felt that the imposition of taxation on property outlined in the Constitution was tantamount to repeating the same injustices levied by the British that had necessitated the Revolutionary
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