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As the United States Constitution came into being during the American Founding Period, supporters ('Nationalists' or 'Federalists') and opponents ('Patriots' or 'Anti-Federalists') participated passionately on behalf of two different views of their nation's federal government. The former argued that the nation could not survive for long without greater powers being supplied to its federal agencies and officers. By contrast, the latter argued vehemently that any federal government in America given additional powers to rule would either be or soon turn into a tyrannical ruling body similar to the British government so recently overthrown.

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