Equal rights, unalienable rights, undermining the legal consensus, right to bear arms
Where is the pic? or the rest of awencers?
The correct answer to this open question is the following.
I agree with Lincoln's view of the proper role of government in that the government should be of service to all the citizens. That is why in a modern democracy such as the one in the United States, it is the citizens the ones who have the right to vote and elect their President and their representatives. Then, these representatives have to create the laws and legislation that protects and benefits the citizens, never to benefit the particular agendas of powerful interest groups.
The citizens have to respect and obey laws and support the government's decisions if the government is doing a good job to promote the economy and the creation of jobs.
The planter class were able to get small farmers to follow them given that they exercised a profound and disproportionate amount of social, economic, and political economic influence in southern society. Small farmer typically owns a few slaves. It was easy to convince the their interests were aligned
The ratification process started when the Congress turned the Constitution over to the state legislatures for consideration through specially elected state conventions of the people. Five state conventions voted to approve the Constitution almost immediately (December 1787 to January 1788) and in all of them the vote was unanimous (Delaware, New Jersey, Georgia) or lopsided (Pennsylvania, Connecticut). Clearly, the well-organized Federalists began the contest in strong shape as they rapidly secured five of the nine states needed to make the Constitution law. The Constitution seemed to have easy, broad, and popular support.
