The Federalists were a minority. How did they get the Constitution ratified?

What will be an ideal response?

An ideal response will:
1) Explain that Federalists may not have had the support of the majority, but they made up for it in shrewd politicking. To get around unfriendly state legislatures, they called for ratification by special conventions in at least nine of the states.

Political Science

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a. racial segregation b. affirmativeaction c. habeas corpus d. legalrepresentation e. capital punishment

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The process of having experts in the field decide whether a particular piece of research should be published is called

a. institutional review b. paper approval c. editorial consent d. scientific critique e. peer review

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