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Federalists V.S. Anti-Federalists

The Federalists triumphed over the Anti-Federalists due to their power gained by property owners and merchants and also their witty tactics of educating the people on their views of the proposed Constitution through the federalist papers.
In 1781 the first attempt to create a government was attempted. The Articles of Confederation were ratified by all 13 states in March of 1781. By 1784 this form of government was proved unworkable because congress could rarely assemble the required 9 states to conduct business and even when they did there was little agreement and lots of argument. This form of government also ran into other problems such as coining currency and enforcing taxes because the congress had no specific power.
In February of 1787 in the middle of an economic mess, Congress passed an official resolution stating calling for a Constitutional Convention to be held in Philadelphia for “the sole purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation” (Pg. 36). There the Virginia plan was proposed by Edmund Randolph and James Madison which contained 15 resolutions and basically creating an entirely new government and the New Jersey Plan was also proposed by William Paterson that wanted to preserve the articles. Later The Great Compromise was created by a committee with equal representation. It took ideas from both plans which included the creation of The House of Representatives and The House or the Legislature. It also gave national government power over state government. The last step was the creation of the executive branch of government which also led to the creation of the Electoral College which gave states a key roll in the election process of on executive leader. The whole system was created to where no one branch was superior to another called the “separation of powers” set up such as a game of “paper-rock-scissors”. The Second Continental Congress immediately accepted the proposed plan for a new constitution. It was not certain that this new...