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Excerpt One: After listing the numerous powers granted to Congress... Excerpt One: After listing the numerous powers granted to Congress by the Constitution the author says My object is to consider that undefined, unbounded and immense power which is comprised in the following clause: "And to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States; or in any department or offices thereof." Under such a clause as this, can anything be said to be reserved and kept back from Congress? ... In giving such immense, such unlimited powers, was there no necessity of a Bill of Rights, to secure to the people their liberties? Is it not evident that we are left wholly dependent on the wisdom and virtue of the men who shall from time to time be the members of Congress? And who shall be able to say seven years hence, the members of Congress will be wise and good men, or of the contrary character? 1. What is the author's purpose in this excerpt? 2. What type of government does the author favor? 3. What does the author say about the future members of Congress? 4. Is the author for (Federalist) or against (Anti-Federalist) ratification of the Constitution? Provide specific evidence from the excerpt. Excerpt Two: The most considerable of the remaining objections is that the plan of the convention contains no bill of rights . ...[Bills of rights] have no application to constitutions professedly founded upon the power of the people, and executed by their immediate representatives and servants. Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing; and as they retain everything they have no need of particular reservations. "WE, THE PEOPLE of the United States, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ORDAIN and ESTABLISH this Constitution for the United States of America." . . . I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in