Federalism

Objective Summary:

• Federalism-- The government system where the states AND the national (federal) governments each share power and make laws. 
• The new constitution created a more federalist government where the central government would become stronger.
• "Federalists" supported this new system and wanted the new constitution to be voted into approval (ratified).
• Federalists wrote articles describing the benefits of the new US Constitution in order to gain support for it-- these were called the Federalist Papers.
• "Anti-Federalists" believed that this new system was too much like the government under England and the King.
• Anti-Federalists did not want the new constitution to be ratified.
• Thomas Jefferson was an Anti-Federalists and believed that the states should remain with most of the power.