Anti Federalism In America

01.02.11

Federalism in the United States of America

Federalism and States’ Rights

In the early years of the United States, after the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation, the need for a Constitution took place when the economy was not prosperous and the want to spread west arose. The original framers knew something needed to be done. And so, supporters for a Constitution were called federalists and the people who opposed the writing of a Constitution were called Anti-Federalists or states’ rights advocates. Federalism started in the United States began with Alexander Hamilton. He “believed only a strong central government could provide the new nation with the economic, political and military cohesiveness…show more content…
The main debate between federalists and the anti-federalists was over the constitution. Many state representatives believed that they were going to lose all of their power to the federal government and therefore did not support the writing of a new constitution. They felt like they were going to be fired from being state politicians and the country would no longer be split into states. The federalists thought that the current problems that the United States was facing could be solved by simply letting the big government take control with limited individual states’ input. It took many months to persuade the majority to agree and finally, they received the majority vote to write the new constitution together as a country (Paul Klinger,…show more content…
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