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Political And Practical Reasons Against The Federalists

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The federalists had political and practical reasons. Examples of political reasons is Jefferson created the Republicans and had been going against the federalists for years so they have grown to hate Jefferson. However the Federalists also had some practical reasoning such as Jefferson has always said you should not be allowed to bend the laws even just a little bit so when he bent the laws a lot the Federalists were confused. The Federalists also knew he did not want Hamilton to make a national bank because nowhere in the constitution did it say he could. Hamilton simply replied by saying the constitution implied he could, which is the defense mechanism Jefferson used about ten years later. To Conclude the Federalists had political reasons

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