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U.S. Constitution and Its System of Government

y, holding instead for the elevation of the rights of individual territories over any federal system. In the final analysis, both points of view were represented in some degree in the Constitution as it was ratified.

Gordon S. Wood describes the two groups as being of different social classes. Wood sees the Federalists as aristocrats, and the Anti-Federalists as democrats. The Anti-Federalists were state-centered men with local interests and loyalties. They are also described as "politicians without social and intellectual confidence" (Lasser 67). They wanted to protect their individual, local interests from any encroachment by the federal system they saw developing under the leadership of the Federalists, and in the end they both lost and won to a degree as the republican form of government was adopted. Lasser says that Wood sees the two groups as different sorts of politicians with different agendas and interests: "The Federalists were urbane and cosmopolitan; the Antifederalists were more parochial" (Lasser 66). In the end, attempts were made to protect the interests of each group.

Philosophically and practically, what the Federalists developed was a dual federalism:

Under this theory, ultimate sovereignty rested in the people; they delegated some of their sovereignty to the national government, some to the states, and retain

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