Opponents to the new Constitution were known as Anti-federalists, although they agreed that a stronger federal government was needed,<u> they </u><u><em>feared that the Constitution would give too much power to the federal government and that it could lead to tyranny without a Bill of Rights in it. </em></u>
During the ratification progress Massachusetts, New York and Virginia argued the Constitution needed a Bill of Rights to protect the sovereignty of the states. <em>So as to ensure ratification of the Constitution, federalist James Madison agreed to write a Bill of Rights that would be added to the Constitution</em>.
The Bill of Rights is written in the first 10 amendments of the United States Constitution and protects the rights and liberties of the American citizens.
The compromise of 1850 contradicted the Missouri Compromise of 1820 by creating a free state south of 36°30'N. According to the Missouri Compromise, Missouri would enter as a slave state, Maine would join as a free state, and slavery would be prohibited in any new state north of Missouri's southern border, 36°30'N latitude
This sentence is correctly punctuated because it separates the initial adverbial clause with a comma, and then puts another comma before the conjuncting adverb "while," which is correctly used joining two sentences.
The years are numbered according to the year in which Christ was believed to have been born. The period before that is known as B.C. (short for Before Christ) and the years after are known as A.D (short Anno Domini, and meaning the Year of our Lord).
