Federalism Vs. Anti-federalism Debate
Explain the debate surrounding the federalism and anti-federalism positions. How did those opposing viewpoints affect Virginia politics during the debates over the adoption of the United State constitution? How did they linger through the state during the Antebellum era? What 20th century political debates in Virginia had their roots in that debate?
Review your sources, pull the ideas out that you find relevant to your topic, and then draw your own conclusions from them. Incorporate your sources into your own findings to lend credibility to your work and demonstrate you have researched the topic to the point where you understand what others have concluded about it and can reasonably draw your own conclusions and contribute new scholarship to the topic.
The research paper must be written in current Turabian format, double spaced in 12 pt. font, have a minimum of 5 scholarly sources and be a minimum of 7 full pages in length.
The Following Sources MUST be used and others can be as well.
– Cornell, Saul. The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. ProQuest Ebook Central.
– Croly, Herbert. The Promise of American Life. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. JSTOR.
– Lewis, Verlan. "Party Control of Government and American Party Ideology Development." Studies in American Political Development 32, no. 2 (2018): 188-216.
– Mulloy, Darren. American Extremism: History, Politics and the Militia Movement. Abingdon, Oxon: Taylor & Francis Group, 2004. ProQuest Ebook Central.
– Shade, William. Democratizing the Old Dominion: Virginia and the Second Party System, 1824-1861. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. ACLS Humanities Ebook.
– Van Cleve, George W. “The Anti-Federalists' Toughest Challenge: Paper Money, Debt Relief, and the Ratification of the Constitution.” Journal of the Early Republic 34, no. 4 (2014): 529-60. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24486660.
