Unit+3+-+Documenting+America

=__Federalist Quotes (all by James Madison)__= "America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a hundred thousand veterans ready for combat." - **Federalist Papers, No. 14, November 30, 1787**

 "Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe. They formed the design of a great Confederacy, which it is incumbent on their successors to improve and perpetuate." - **Federalist Papers, No. 14, November 30, 1787**

 "Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society." - **Federalist Papers, No. 37, January 11, 1788**

 "Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established, be a FEDERAL, and not a NATIONAL constitution." - **Federalist Papers, No. 39, January, 1788**

 "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." - **Federalist Papers, No. 45, January 26, 1788**

 "It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object." - **Federalist Papers, No. 45, January 26, 1788**

=__Anti-Federalist Quotes__=

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"There are two opinions prevailing in the world-the one, that mankind can only be governed by force; the other, that they are capable of freedom and a good government. Under a supposition that mankind can govern themselves, I would recommend that the present Confederation should be amended." -William Grayson=====

"If the body of the people will not govern themselves, and govern themselves well too, the consequence is unavoidable-a FEW will, and must govern them." -by "A Farmer" (true author unknown)
From Anti-Federalist Paper #5: "I am confident it must be, and that it is, the sincere wish of every true friend to the United States, that there should be a confederated national government, but that it should be one which would have a control over national and external matters only, and not interfere with the internal regulations and police of the different states in the union." -Anonymous

From Anti-Federalist Paper #8: "if a Continental collector, in the execution of his office, should invade your freedom (according to this new government, which has expressly declared itself paramount to all state laws and constitutions) the state of which you are a citizen will have no authority to afford you relief." -by A Federal Republican

From Anti-Federalist Paper #17: "...the authority to lay and collect taxes is the most important of any power that can be granted; it connects with it almost all other powers, or at least will in process of time draw all others after it" - by "Brutus"

From Anti-Federalist Paper #18: "...we may yet form a federal constitution much superior to any form of government which has ever existed in the world. But whenever this important work shall be accomplished, I venture to pronounce that it will not be done without a careful attention to the Framing of a bill of rights." -An Old Whig

From Anti-Federalist Paper #23: "Congress may mortgage any or all the revenues of the union, as a fund to loan money upon; and it is probable, in this way, they may borrow of foreign nations, a principal sum, the interest of which will be equal to the annual revenues of the country. By this means, they may create a national debt, so large, as to exceed the ability of the country ever to sink." - by "Brutus"

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=__Classwork on Friday, January 20:__= =After gathering the facts in //Scholastic News//, [|CLICK HERE] to read opinions both for and against the death penalty in the United States. Then, respond to the Wiki Discussion on this page with your answer to the question: //Should the death penalty be banned as a form of punishment?//= = =