ubjects to political powers they could not see, and this, they believed, is what would happen again if the Constitution was to be ratified. Political leaders from an aristocratic class, far distanced from the people, would be dictating what the common man could or could not do. What history told these men, who so passionately wrote against the ratification of the proposed Constitution, was that unchecked power in the hands of a few inevitably leads to a corrupt and oppressive form of government. Works CitedKammen, Michael. The Origins of the American Constitution: A DocumentaryHistory. New York: Penguin Books Inc., 1986.The Constitution Society. 6 April 2001 http://www.constitution.org/afp.htm....
