The Federalist authors and delegates used logical argument to attack prejudice. They emphasized on the weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation and the need of a stronger central government, and defended the new Constitution.
The Constitution was written to organize a strong national government for the American states. Before, the nation's leaders had a national government under the Articles of Confederation. But the Articles gave independence to each individual state. The thing that the articles lacked was the power to make the states work together to work out national dilemmas.…
