Federalists viewed the national debt with great approval because they believed that having a debt made people fundamentally good and trustworthy, because if people paid and honored a debt, it meant they were good to their word and reliable. Because they sought to reorganize the Article of Confederation with the Constitution, Federalists believed in the necessity of having a strong central government because it provided stability. Their view on the federal government was that it should have a strong central government as previously mentioned and that the Constitution should not be taken so literally, meaning that their interpretation of the Constitution was more lax and loose since it often implied rights that were not explicitly written. and textually in the current Constitution. Federalists believed in limited democracy because only elites should have a say, while inferiors should be silenced. This belief ultimately heavily influenced the development of the Alien and Sedition Acts, whereby certain people were not allowed to vote or have a say. Building on their idea of