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This 4 page paper discusses the way in which the Federalist/Anti-Federalist struggle laid the foundation for American democracy. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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that help it progress and avoiding (for the most part) those things that do not strengthen it. While there are any number of things we could discuss in regard to
the shaping of the nation (the Civil War, the Depression, womens entry into the work force, the world wars), this paper goes back to the beginning and argues that the
America we have today grew out of the ideas expressed by the Federalists, who set us on our course by determining what sort of government we would have. Discussion We
tend to lose sight of the fact that the struggle to establish the United States involved more than the war against Britain; it also involved establishing a nation, and that
in turn meant deciding what kind of government the nation would have. Many people, having just come through a war to rid themselves of the tyranny of a king, were
leery of establishing a strong central government; they wanted the states to have most of the power to legislate, tax and make other similar decisions. But there were a great
many people who believed that a strong federal government would be a better choice. Those who supported a strong central government were known as Federalists; notable Federalists included Alexander Hamilton,
James Madison and John Jay (Federalist party, 2005). Opposition to a strong federal government was known as anti-federalism, and was headed by Thomas Jefferson (Federalist party, 2005). The disagreement about
the issue was so sharp that it led to the creation of the major political parties: "The party that emerged to champion Hamiltons views was the Federalist party. Its opponents,
at first called Anti-Federalists, drew together into a Jeffersonian party; first called the Republicans and later the Democratic Republicans, they eventually became known as the Democratic party" (Federalist party, 2005).
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