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Samuel Nasson Anti-Federalist Representative Massachusetts was originally founded by the Puritans and is located in the northern area, also called New England. Some of their main activities were fishing and small farming. Also, they made a lot of ships with all of the lumber available. The Puritans and other Separatists in this area had very strong religious influences and started the Great Awakening with a Massachusetts minister named Jonathon Edwards. There were a lot of big names and thinkers that came from Massachusetts and it was one of the most influential colonies in America.
 * Massachusetts Economy and Background**

Samuel Nasson was born in New Hampshire and grew up as a store owner in Maine. Once he was older, he decided to settle down and live in Sanford, Maine. Nasson served in the war and was a trader in Sanford. He served on the General Court in 1787 and represented the Anti-Federalists in the Massachusetts Ratification Convention.
 * Nasson’s Occupation and Background**

Nasson was a member of the Convention and played a smaller role in helping the Massachusetts Committee propose these Amendments. Some of their main ideas were that there should be one Representative for a set amount of people until there are two hundred people in the House, any powers not mentioned in the Constitution are decided by the state and that you are required by law to appear in front of a Grand Jury before being accused of a crime.
 * Constitutional Convention**

Nasson was also a member of the Massachusetts Ratification Convention. In 1789, he sent a letter to a Federalist Massachusetts Convention member that said he hopes the Amendments are made for the best interests of the whole, people can bear arms for hunting or for self-defense and that it is a right that people get to do so. Nasson had very strong opinions about having a right for people to bear arms for their own defense and not just the military. Nasson had very close tie to Tenche Cox, James Madison and other anti-federalists in the area and was against the Fedralists who wanted a strong central government. He thought this would take away too many rights of the people. In the end, Samuel Nasson fought aggressively against the Constitution to end in Massachusetts and he strongly supported the idea of people being able to defend for themselves.
 * Constitution Arguments and Allies**

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