A is likely the closest to what a Federalist would say.
Federalists were concerned about what the new country would and would not be able to do.
One of the concerns was around national defense. Federalists believed that central government was the proper place for national defense.
1. Economic competition among industrial nations.
2. Political and military competition, including the creation of a strong naval force.
3. A belief in the racial and cultural superiority of people of Anglo-Saxon descent.
Answer:
A form of government in which the ruler has total or absolute power, not limited by laws, especially when he obtains it by illegal means, and abuses it.
Explanation:
<em>Civil wars and foreign invasions showed that the empire had become too large to be ruled by one person.</em> :-)