Question

Compare and contrast the purpose of the Federalist Papers and the AntiFederalists writings and their effect on American founding documents.

Answer 1

The federalist papers wanted to present to the people how a strong central government would be useful to the people and the union and how it could protect them from both foreign and domestic threats. The anti-federalists opposed this and claimed that a strong federal government could easily become tyrannical and become just like the European ones. The founding documents thus tried to find a compromise between these two stances.