1.3 Government Power and Individual Rights

• Majority rule vs. minority rights   * Regional and economic
• Federalists (Hamilton, Madison, John Jay) v. Anti-Federalists (Patrick Henry, George Mason)   * Centralized v. state leading government   * Fought with the Federalist and Anti Federalist papers
• Letters From the Federal Farmer were also written as a version of the Anti-Federalist Papers   * Said that the USC goal was to make one consolidated government instead of many small ones under a federal head
• Federalists did win with the United States Constitution

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