The Federalists and Anti-Federalists clearly believe in two opposing ideologies and platforms. The Federalists who are also termed as nationalists played a vital role in the formation and shaping of the 1787 US constitution which solidified the national government at that time. The Anti-Federalists on the other hand, is against the ratification of the US constitution but failed to successfully penetrate the thirteen states that caused them to individually fight the ratification in every state convention. However, they had successfully forced the first Congress to create a bill of rights under the new Constitution in order to make sure the freedom and rights that the Anti-Federalists felt that the Constitution had violated.
It would be 48.2. I did the math but don't know how to explain it.
Because the American people where scared that if they gave people that much power over them, like there would be in a strong central government, then the same tyranny that happened with King George and Great Britain, would happen again in their own government.
The 15th Amendment to the Constitution granted African American men the right to vote by declaring that the "right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
(It gave African American men a voice in government.)
if we arent talking about the football patriots, patriots where the colonists of the thirteen colonies who have rejected british rules during the american revolution and declared the united states.