To win support for ratification of the United States Constitution, Federalists agreed to add a Bill of Rights to the document.
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The Federalist favored ratification of the newly drafted Constitution. Those that opposed the United States Constitution were known as the Anti-Federalist.
Early American history saw the federalists working hard to ratify the document that would lay the foundation for the young country. The federalists worked hard and gave enough speeches to convince all of the original colonies to say yes to the new Constitution of the United States.
People who supported the new constitution and work to get it ratified
in 1768. In 1868 with the ratification of the 14th amendment to the United States Constitution.
The Constitution lacked a bill of rights.