What best summarizes the point of view the excerpt expresses? Under one unified government, people will be robbed of their freedoms.

Answer Expert Verified The statement that best summarizes the point of view the excerpt expresses is “Under one unified government, people will be robbed of their freedoms.”

Those who supported the Constitution and a stronger national republic were known as Federalists. Those who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in favor of small localized government were known as Anti-Federalists.

The Anti-Federalists feared that if the Constitution became law then the federal government would become far too powerful over the states, and would become tyrannical.

The statement which summarizes the publication’s view of government is, “We need government because people are flawed”.

Antifederalists argued that a bill of rights was necessary because, the supremacy clause in combination with the necessary and proper and general welfare clauses would allow implied powers that could endanger rights. Federalists rejected the proposition that a bill of rights was needed.

The Federalists wanted a strong central government, with a strong executive branch. They did not want a Bill of Rights, in their minds the Constitution was efficient enough without one.

The Federalists supported the Constitution and wanted a stronger national government. The Antifederalists opposed the Constitution because they wanted more power to remain with the states.

The Federalists opposed the Bill of Rights because they believed that it wasn’t necessary because the Constitution only limited the government, not the people. The Anti-Federalists opposed the Constitution because they felt it gave too much power to the national government and it violated the people’s rights.

The Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the 1787 U.S. Constitution because they feared that the new national government would be too powerful and thus threaten individual liberties, given the absence of a bill of rights. …

– Why did Federalist support the constitution? Because Federalist believed that the Constitution gave the national government the authority it needed to function effectively.

To ensure adoption of the Constitution, the Federalists, such as James Madison, promised to add amendments specifically protecting individual liberties. These amendments, including the First Amendment, became the Bill of Rights. James Madison later became a Democratic-Republican and opposed many Federalist policies.

The Anti-Federalists believed the people’s liberties needed protection from the government. Their pressure and threats to block ratification of the Constitution led the Federalists to agree to add a “Bill of Rights” to the Constitution if it were to be ratified.

Why did Anti-Federalists oppose the Constitution? They believed their was nothing protecting the rights of the people in the Constitution, so the national government could grow too powerful and infringe on the rights of the people.

Federalists favored the Constitution; Antifederalist favored stronger state governments. Federalists supported a federal system with a Constitution and a centralized national government. Anti-Federalists wanted more power to rest with the states and the people.

The Federalists believed that the Constitution would prevent the national government from gaining to much power because it designed the three separate branches of the government with a system of checks and balances that prevented any of them from dominating the others.