Authors included George Clinton and Robert Yates, two New York state political figures, who wrote under the names Brutus and Cato. The anti-Federalists started to publish an anonymous series of newspaper essays condemning the proposed Constitution as taking away the power of the states. The concerns sounded an argument we still hear today: too much power would be held in the hands of the federal government. There was considerable opposition to many key points, which were voiced by three delegates who refused to sign the final document. The ink on the Constitution was barely dry when it was sent to the 13 states for approval, and that approval was far from a done deal. Better known now as The Federalist papers, the essays caused a sensation when they started appearing in October 1787 as a response to a rival set of essays written by a group called the anti-Federalists. He came to America in 1772 to attend school. Hamilton was born on January 11, in either 1755 or 1757, on the island on Nevis in the British West Indies. In a tribute to an essential, and controversial figure, Constitution Daily looks back at the papers that made Hamilton our “founding blogger.” Today marks the birthday of Alexander Hamilton.
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