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Why was it important that the largest states ratify the Constitution?

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Power

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It was important for the larger states to ratify the constitution because of what they had to lose, bigger states mean more power, the people were afraid that if these states got ratified it would affect the balance in the Judicial and Government system.

Anti-Federalists objected to the power the Constitution gave the federal government and the absence of a bill of rights to protect individual liberties.

The Federalists countered that a strong government was necessary to lead the new nation and promised to add a bill of rights to the Constitution.

TO rather summarize if the larger states were not ratified it would reduce the new union by two large, populated, wealthy states, and would geographically splinter it.

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