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words (2.6 double-spaced pages) Rating: Red (FREE)        John
Adams stated that “Government is instituted for the common good;
for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the
people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any
one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone
have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to
institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change
the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and
happiness require it.” Federalists believed this, and fought
verbal and written battles against the Anti-Federalists, who
disagreed with John Adams. Anti-Federalists believed that in an
elite democracy, the elite’s would get greedy and selfish, and
only worry about themselves. As I’m on the Federalist side, I
believe that John Adams was correct in