Rather, everyone in the kingdom had a seat at the table, for here Arthur heard the voices of everyday citizens as well. King Arthur is myth; but, the effectiveness of the round table, especially with. regard to public engagement is very real. It is an excellent form of small group.
When the British began to seize ships bound for French ports, Washington sent John Jay, a prominent Federalist and chief justice of the Supreme Court, to London to negotiate a treaty. Jay was a weak negotiator and unwilling to provoke the British.ay returned to the United States with a treaty that removed some British outposts from the Northwest (posts that the British had promised to abandon in the Treaty of 1783 that ended the Revolution), but did relatively nothing to confirm the neutral rights of American ships.
Robert Whitehill was prominent in the Anti-Federalist opposition to ratification, basing his views both on procedure and the failure of the new constitution to include a bill of rights.He put forward Fourteen Points , in a document that was signed by 21 members of the Pennsylvania convention.his series of essays was probably the most widely known expression of anti-federalist views. The first letter ends: Anti-Federalists were concerned that the constitution did not equally divide power among the three branches of government.