we want to encourage democracy because we fear a strong government that will be dominated by the wealthy. we feel that the states would be giving up too much power to the federal government. Another major objection is the lack of guarantees of individual rights in the Constitution where it stands.

a central government that is vested in too much power can’t represent the interest of the average citizen in every part of the country. we worry that individual liberties could be trampled and as a new fledgling country that has just broken away from england, we would have traded one tyrant across the ocean (the british king) for a bunch of small tyrants in a powerful central government.