The Anti-Federalist and Federalist parties’ major argument was toward America’s states and their need to unionize, in order to create a stronger national government without infringement of natural rights. At the Constitutional Convention, Federalism relied on the national government’s offer of credence on state relations, while consolidating its authority to more tactfully engage in foreign policy; whereas Anti-Federalists remained evidentialist, demanding a declarative and enumerated acknowledgment of the guaranteed protection and posterity of civil rights. Constitutionally, America required both contrasting ideologies Federalist and Anti-Federalist to ensure a decentralized and diverse authority that would not harm nor violate the rights of the Colonists. The Constitution would be ratified to represent objective truth in U.S. law and policy, therefore the Federalists rejected the consideration of human rights in the formation of government, as these inherent rights had already been discussed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence over a decade earlier.