HIST 351 Study Guide - Final Guide: The Federalist Papers, British America
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Small vs large states slave vs free states state authority vs central government. Convention put on by the nationalists and people of the economic elite in british america, no common people were there. Alexander hamilton is the example of a typical person there. Independence hall in philly in may 1787 there was a meeting, madison was the man guy, one of the first ones there. Madison was aware of his strengths, he was a great speaker, he reasoned through the original constitution. Madison always thought a plan beats no plan all the time, he disagreed with some ideas, like dickenson. madison knew what he wanted to accomplish and new how to anticipate what they did not agree with. Frankin was world known by that point, people understood that he embodied the ethic of the american revolution, he was a self made man, not what his father wanted him to be.
