Which of the following is NOT true about the ratification of the Constitution?
"The Federalist Papers" were 85 essays written by Madison, Hamilton, and John Jay in support of ratifying the Constitution.
Pre-Revolutionary heroes such as Sam Adams and Patrick Henry opposed ratification of the Constitution.
There were very few anti-Federalists, and the popular Constitution was ratified with almost no opposition.
James Madison warned that democracies "have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."
Federalists, like James Madison and Alexander Hamilton, were in favor of ratification.