One fundamental way in which the Anti-Federalists and Federalists were similar is that they __________.

Both Federalists and Anti-Federalists supported a republican form of government, in which citizens choose representatives to govern. They disagreed about how much power the national government should have and whether a large republic could protect liberty, so A and C do not describe what they shared. Their support also did not come equally from the same groups of people, ruling out D.

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