Anti-Federalist Papers is the collective name given to the works written by the Founding Fathers who were opposed to, or concerned with, the merits of the United States Constitution of 1787.

As a group, Anti-Federalists were concerned about several issues. They feared that sovereignty, autonomy and states’ rights would be trampled by the newly empowered national government. …

2017年9月27日 · Anti-Federalists in Massachusetts, Virginia and New York, three crucial states, made ratification of the Constitution contingent on a Bill of Rights. In Massachusetts, …

2014年8月26日 · Many Antifederalists were elected as delegates to state ratification conventions, and even more published anti- Constitution propaganda. Individual rights and liberty were …

Anti-Federalists, a loose political coalition of popular politicians, such as Patrick Henry, who, fearing the authority of a single national government, unsuccessfully opposed the strong …

THE ANTI-FEDERALISTS, 1781-1789 By FORREST MCDONALI) THE term anti-Federalists' means those per-sons who opposed the establishment of a national government under the …

2024年3月1日 · Each category of Anti-Federalist dissenters had a distinctive ideological position, identified with a region of the nation, and had an emblematic essayist. Rights Anti-Federalists …

The Anti-Federalist objections to the structure of the proposed government related either to federalism or to republicanism. As examples of the former, the Senate, despite state equality, …

2019年1月4日 · developed the theme, contending that the genius of the Federalist framers was their down-to-earth practicality, while the tragedy of the Antifederalist opponents was their …

Anti-Federalism was a late-18th-century political movement that opposed the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the 1787 …