If you had been a delegate to one of the state conventions, would you have sided with the federalists, or the anti-federalists? use what you know about each group to support your own point of view and opinion.

Here is information to support either side:

Federalists - Federalists were individuals who believed that the United States needed the federal government to have more power than the state government. One of the major reason behind this idea is the lack of success underneath the Articles of Confederation. This was America's first constitution and it was highly ineffective. This was ineffective due to the lack of power held by the federal government.

Anti-Federalists- Anti-Federalists, on the other hand, felt that state governments should have more power than federal government. Anti-Federalists feared that a strong federal govenrment would infringe upon the rights of its citizens.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion