<span>Global interactions and entanglements between the West and Asia are at present more and more at the forefront of scholarly attention and the Heidelberg Cluster of Excellence, aptly named `Asia and Europe in a Global Context', is an initiative to facilitate academic endeavors in this promising area of research. Under the auspices of this Cluster a conference was organized in which the participants looked at the phenomenon of the state, and related processes of state building, in early modern Asia and Europe.( I hope to understand )</span>
A group called the anti-Federalists wanted to add the bill of rights to ensure that personal freedoms would be secure from the large national government that was being proposed.
