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The regulations of the use of marijuana are different in each state. A Supreme Court ruling was held in order to decide the legal use of marijuana was the national government's power to decide. Others disagree and think that it should be based on state laws.

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The problems with the Articles of Confederation were concerns for the survival of the nation according to the Federalist Party, causing them to want to create and ratify a new Constitution.

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The Federalists are directing their concerns toward the Antifederalists in hopes of proving the Articles of Confederation did not work and convincing them to ratify the Constitution.

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The political cartoon's purpose/intention is to convince Americans. and specifically the Antifederalists, to understand the weaknesses within the Articles of Confederation.

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The context of this political cartoon would be around the time our nation began to experience problems associated with the Articles of Confederation and during the drafting of the Constitution prior to it being ratified. (1781-1787)

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Federalists would have been critical of the Articles of Confederation because it created a weak national government. They emphasized all of the problems within it such as the lack of an executive branch and court system, the inability for Congress to collect taxes, the lack of power over trade and creating foreign relations.

Antifederalists would have supported the Articles of Confederation as it gave states more power and they would have agreed it was "not all bad" since it provided government structure at the end of the Revolutionary War and created the Northwest Ordinance to organize territories and new states.

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In our country, the debate has grown over time if marijuana should be legal or not the national government has always said Marijuana should be Illegal but different states make different decisions about the legalization of marijuana.

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The audience of this document is the general public. They need to know weather or not it is illegal or not in order to have marijuana. The law on marijuana varys from state to states.

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Amos Singletree doesn't support ratifying the Constitution because he is afraid that it will give rich people too much power and not enough power to the poor people.

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Singletree is directing his speech to the people who were at the Adoption of the Federal Constitution Convention in Philadelphia since he wants them to take his side and deny ratifying the Constitution.

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Main Idea: Democrats and Republicans debate over which major role should the national government play, these roles include Ensuring access to health care, Protecting the environment, Helping people to get out of poverty, effectively handling threats to public health, responding to natural disasters, ensuring safe food and medicine, Maintaining infrastructure, managing the U.S. immigration system, keeping the country safe from terrorism, and strengthening the economy 

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Main Idea: Democrats and Republicans debate over which major role should the national government play, these roles include Ensuring access to health care, Protecting the environment, Helping people to get out of poverty, effectively handling threats to public health, responding to natural disasters, ensuring safe food and medicine, Maintaining infrastructure, managing the U.S. immigration system, keeping the country safe from terrorism, and strengthening the economy 

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The Democrats are donkeys, the elephant are Republicans

they are seen saying stuff like left ,big = nation gov ,add= more power , and subtract= from national and put it more towards states, little= have little power they dont want the gov to have to much power , right

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The main idea of supporting the Constitution by ratifying is that federalists feels like the country is in shambles, lacking stock in Europe, which leads too change. The economic issues are in need of help to fix what is going wrong.

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the Intention of this document is to show how split political parties are about the national government, with the democrats there were more distinct with there decisions on the national government and has always had trust in the nat gov ever since they were federalists and the Republicans have always been a little skeptical on giving the national government power ever since they were anti federalists. It truly emphasizes how different political parties disagree in the extent of power the national government should have.

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The context in this document is the two parties arguing over

whether national or state governments should have more power and what roles each should play. This is a modern interpretation of today's political parties.

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The context in this Document is discussing how today's two political parties are still debating the extent of power the national government should have and what they should be involved in.

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the polls include what percent of each political party want the national government to be involved in, majority of the democrats agree the national government should be involved in majority of the roles in health care, environment, and poverty while the republican party tend to favor less national government involvement on most issues

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The Document is directed towards those against or hesitant of ratifying the Constitution, specifically the Anti-Federalists, with the intent of convincing them that the Articles of Confederation are failing and change is needed.

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the audience is everyone because they want people to pick sides / make people choose sides

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The purpose of Singletree's speech is to convince the Federalists and Anti-Federalists to not ratify the constitution unless it is fixed to prevent the rich people from having too much power.

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The document includes both democrat/federalist and republican/anti-federalist point of view as they are both expressing what they want as groups.

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Federalists are trying to get opposers of the Constitution to vote in favor of ratifying it by adding benefits, e.g., no person can be tried for any crime without indictment from a grand jury.

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The audience are anti-federalist because the authors, federalists, are trying to get more votes in favor of ratifying the constitution, and do this by adding benefits and saying the constitution is helpful and should remove fear

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The main idea of this document is to highlight one of the arguments used by Anti-Federalists, which was that a strong federal government would lead to endangered rights and a weakened state government.

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The audience of this speech would be the delegates at the Virginia State Constitutional Ratification Convention

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The main idea of this document is that ratifying the constitution could result in issues such as lack of individual rights and no security. The author is pushing for a Bill of Rights to ensure freedoms to everyone.

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This speech was made to the Massachusetts Constitutional Ratification Convention, which included debates between members about whether the Constitution would work. The speech was made during 1788, a time in which views started shifting from the Articles of Confederation to the new Constitution.

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The Federalists are directing their concerns towards the Anti - Federalists. They are trying to show why the Constitution needs recognition. The Federalists supported the constitution because there were plenty of problems being criticized in every part of the United States.

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This Document is an excerpt from a newspaper called The Massachusetts Sentinel, on October 20th, 1787. The excerpt was re-published in Voices of America: Readings in American History, Thomas R. Frazier, ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985, p. 61.

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The context of this speech was from the Anti-Federalist Patrick Henry, who was trying to convey his opinion that the ratification of the new US Constitution would lead to an endangerment of citizens rights and a weakening of state government.

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The point of view is an Anti-Federalist point of view because they are opposed to ratifying

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His intention was to get the anti-federalists to be convinced enough to support ratifying the constitution and gives reasons as to why the Articles of Confederation is not satisfying the people with what they've been wanting for a while.

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Federalists wrote this resolution from the Massachusetts Constitutional Ratification Convention, in February of 1788. This convention approved the Constitution with a vote of 187 to 168.

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The point of view of this document, are the federalists. In the document the federalists are trying to persuade opposes of the constitution to vote in favor of passing it by things that will benefit everyone and help everyone feel more easy about passing the constitution.

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Mercy Otis Warren wants to publicize an article showing the people that the constitution should not be ratified. She says that they need a bill of rights .

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The main idea of George Washington's letter was to express the need for corrections to the Articles of Confederation. He believes that the original article contains errors that need to be adjusted to better fit the nations needs.

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The intention of this document is to address the concerns of an anti- federalist. Its specifically for the federalists to understand why anti-federalists are concerned and are pushing for the Bill of Rights. The author is addressing why she is opposed to ratifying the constitution to speak out about concerns so that everyone is ensured security.

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This Exerpt is from "Observations on the New Federal Constitiution and on the Federal and State Conventions" by Mercy Otis Warren. It originally appeared as a newspaper article in the Spring of 1788. At this convention they discussed why and why not the Constitution should be ratified. Also what can be added and improved in the constitution.

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George Washington is directing his statements to all of the people in power. Washington is trying to prove to his peers that what they have in the Articles of Confederation is not enough.

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The PEW Research Center published a poll based on whether or not U.S. adults would want more or less government power in a certain scenario. From the poll's outcome, more Democrats favored more government power on most issues, just the the Federalists did historically.

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The Intention of this document is that Washington is agreeing with Jay's Criticism of the Article of Confederation that he wants people to fix errors that need to be corrected within the Articles Of Confederation. Which are independent, disunited states that the government needs more power to control the people.

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The federalists would want the decision for the legalization of marijuana to be left up to the gov. The anti-federalists would want that decision to be left up to the states.

Debates continue today between state and national governments regarding who should have power to determine laws on marijuana.

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The intention of this document is showing how the economy wouldn't benefit from the Constitution, and how the Constitution is endangering their rights and privileges. Antifederalists are trying to get people to understand that the Bill of Rights would be a better option

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Amos Singletree had a strong opinions against the Constitution's ideas because of his belief that the government would be overpowered, run by only wealthy Americans, and leave the lesser wealthy people with no rights or say. In his speech, he uses strong words to express this opinion such as "swallow" and "power".

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The context of this letter was written by George Washington. The letter was dated August 1, 1789. It was written to John Jay, a Federalist in support of the ratification. George Washington wrote to him agreeing with his criticism of the Articles of Confederation.

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The intention of these sources is to show the different opinions of which level of government has power in certain situations. It is similar to how the Federalists and Anti-Federalists disagreed on if the National Government should make the decisions or if state law should be presented for the people.

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This document is a speech by Patrick Henry opposing the Constitution. The context of this document is to argue the Constitution and sway people in the direction of a Bill of Rights so the economy is more protected.

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The Federalists were aware of the state of their country because of The Articles of Confederation, with weak or non existent policies, such as no federal taxes, no military funding, no trade policies & weak foreign policies. The United States were hardly United, and a hardly functioning collection of Nation-States, the laughing stock of the western & Eurasian world. The federalists wanted to convince Antifeds so ratify the constitution and fix these problems.

Anti-federalists would have been against the ratification of the Constitution, and almost in denial of how bad the nation is running. Would want to keep the Articles of Confederation.

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The point of view is from an anti federalist who's strongly opposing the ratification of the constitution. She believes that change is needed political and the current government is giving specific people too much power. Shes purposing changes in political rule and personal rights.

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The public poll is directed towards multiple parties, the American public, future and present government representatives, and both members of the two political parties.

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The point of view is George Washington, a federalist representative and speaker. Washington is agreeing with John Jay's criticism of the Articles of Confederation. Washington believes the national government needs more power than it was given.

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The point of view in this document is the Antifederalists opposing ratifying the Constitution and how the Constitution would gain more power in the national government, when the Anifederalits believe that the national government should have limited power.

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the Intention is ( scope of gov power - national or state) the donkeys wants more power towards national gov and the elephants want less power towards the national gov and more towards states this proves there constant disagreement

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The addition to the Constitution that is being suggested in the source are the creation of amendments (the Bill of Rights) that would protect the rights of both people and states 

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The addition to the Constitution that is being suggested in the source are the creation of amendments (the Bill of Rights) that would protect the rights of both people and states 