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Richard Henry Lee - Research Paper

Richard Henry Lee

Before the Constitution of the United States was ratified, it had to go through a series of meetings and conferences to make sure that it was the right decision for the future of the United States and her people. We have all read and heard of famous names such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson who supported and signed the Constitution of the United States of America. We do not however usually hear of the names of those colonists who disliked the Constitution and did not support it. These were the Anti-federalists. One Anti-federalist was . Lee was a large participant in the shaping of the United States’ government. He did not like the Constitution for two ...

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the Constitution giving so much power to the central government, the states would eventually lose their own power and the federal government would take over. This meant that the federal government would ultimately control over all the land within its borders. This, Henry Lee felt, would be impossible for a central government to do. It is written in a letter from to Edmund Pendleton that:
“… in a country so extensive as the territory of the U. States which is stated by Capt. Hutchins at a Million square miles, whilst the empire of Germany contains but 192,000, and the kingdom of France but 163,000 square miles.”
With this believed area to be in the United States’ territory, it would have been impossible for a central government to attempt to monitor all happenings. Lee felt that if the states were able to monitor their own happenings within each of their own borders, it would be easier for the state governments to handle the problems that they were confronted with. Also with ...

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Added: 4/6/2006 07:27:04 PM
Category: Biographies
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