While guaranteeing the sovereignty of individual states, this extremely weak initiative has proven to endanger the nation as a nascent democracy. Without a strong centralized government, the loosely structured union of the states gave rise to a host of problems that challenged the nation's legitimacy as a new free state. Shay's Rebellion single-handedly exposed the country's inability to appease a legion of angry debtors, made up of farmers. ** and also “source which mentions that the foreign threats were legitimate”. ** Thus began the need for a new constitution. Adopting a new constitution would prove difficult, even if general agreement on the Articles of Confederations failed. The Constitution was unduly challenged by those who wanted a weak central government, fearing that the individual rights of citizens would be violated. The fear of despotic rule, whether exercised by many hands or by just one, pushed for the recognition and guarantee of personal freedoms and rights. Anti-Federalists feared that a republic would be created. However, Madison's Federalist Paper 10 elucidates the dangers of too democratic a government, conducive to factions where the tyranny of the majority would present itself. Before continuing, we must distinguish between democracy and republic.