A centralized and efficient government would do away with both of these threats.

It would prevent or curb all but the most serious sectional disputes, while at the same time it would provide a much stronger guarantee for internal political order and social stability.

An equally strong interest lay at the roots of anti-Federalism and it had its theory, though this theory was less mature and definite.

Behind the opposition to a centralized government were the interests and the prejudices of the mass of the American people,--the people who were, comparatively speaking, lacking in money, in education, and in experience.

The Revolutionary War, while not exclusively the work of the popular element in the community, had undoubtedly increased considerably its power and influence.