Which people were the Federalists?

A) those who supported the ratification of the Constitution as it was written at the
Constitutional Convention in the summer of 1787

B) those who believed that the United States should have a bicameral legislature in which each state's representation was not based on its population

C) those who argued that the goal of the Constitutional Convention was to amend the
Articles of Confederation, not to write a new document

D) those who insisted that slaves be counted as full persons when determining state and
national population figures