After the Constitutional Convention the real battle was just beginning. There were those people who opposed the Constitution and they took on the name of the Anti-Federalists, and then there were those who were in favor of the Constitution and they became known as the Federalists. There were many opinions from both sides played out in the public through printed newspapers across the country. The debates between the two sides were heated at times. The main concern was how much power the federal government should have. "Two Founding Fathers who represented opposing sides were Alexander Hamilton, who argued for a strong national government with James Madison and John Jay in the seminal Federalist Papers, and Thomas Jefferson who favored a weaker central government and more power resting with individual states"(The Federalists Debates, n.d; & Bruns 1986). This is where the different political parties got there starts; they are what we call today Democrats and Republicans.
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