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Bill of Rights
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Federalists promised to add a bill of rights to the constitution if it was ratified.
The Anti-Federalists were most angered by the fact that the Constitution had no bill of rights to protect the people. In order to get the Constitution ratified, the Federalists promised that adding a bill of rights would be the first thing the new Congress would do after the Constitution was put in place.
The Federalists wrote a series of editorials and had them published in newspapers across the country, and as pamphlets, which argued for the ratification of the Constitution. Historians now call these The Federalist Papers.