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The Federalists and the Anti-Federalists waged a battle over ratification (73) of the new Constitution, with the former setting out their case in a series of newspaper editorials known today as The Federalist Papers (74). In the most famous of these essays, James Madison argued that the new republic would be well able to handle the danger of factions (75), and in another, Alexander Hamilton argued that it would be dangerous to add a Bill of Rights (75) to the document. Hamilton ultimately lost the argument, and the Bill of Rights was the price the Anti- Federalists demanded for their agreement to ratify the Constitution.