The federalists argued that a national government would

Despite Madison's arguments that a strong national government offered protections for the people's rights, an actual Bill of Rights was added later as the first ten Amendments to the Constitution. Madison drafted these amendments to appease the Anti-Federalists and help ensure ratification in Virginia.
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Not sure if it’s within 12 months, but you could talk about the spreading of alt-right hate speech and whether that is covered by the right of freedom of speech? or, cover how during the midterm elections in some states many native american populations were declined to vote because they didn’t have the proper id, despite being citizens? also, the death of that journalist last month, who spoke freely and reported about the saudi government and how corrupted it is and was killed because of that (lack of free press/speech). just some ideas for this prompt, i hope at least one of them : )