Another Look At The Constitution, Pt. 2

There was one man who grasped the problem confronting the new government under the constitution: James Madison. He realized that although it was ratified, the constitution was disliked by much of the population. Madison worked to destroy the myth that the federalists wanted to turn the states into one all-powerful nation state. He realized that the solution was a federal government, which gave some power to the states, some to the national government. To make the Constitution more palatable to the people, he proposed 19 amendments, 10 of which passed and became the bill of rights. This helped to calm the agitation of all the states...

To Be Continued.