The founding father's knew they done goofed with the Articles of Confederation, so, they tried again. This time, they gave it a really cool, unique, totally original name, The Constitution.
For the constitution to become the official rule, 9/13 states needed to vote to ratify. This meant that each state needed to hold individual elections to decide whether or not they would ratify it. Federalists, those for ratification, scurried quickly to organize voting sessions before those who apposed ratification, anti federalists, could convene.
A series of tactics were utilized in order to secure ratification among the states. For example, New York was mostly anti federalists, however, John Jay and James Madison, lead by Alexander Hamilton, were able to sway the voters to the other side. Writing essays and stalling tactics were what pushed New Yorkers to the other side.
Ratification was eventually voted in, mainly because anti federalists could not gain support of the intellectual members of the colonies. Anti federalists were not capable of establishing an anti Constitution campaign because the supporters lacked education and intelligence. Conformity also played a roll in ratification as more and more states ratified.
Information from http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/teachers/lesson_plans/pdfs/unit2_13.pdf since I didn't have the paper to pull info from.
That was some good insight about how most of the antifederalists not being well educated I did not know that. Also the opening to the post was good in caught me in the moment I read it
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