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The Anti-Federalists rejected the term, arguing that they were the true Federalists. In both their correspondence and their local groups, they tried to capture the term. For example, an unknown anti-federalist signed his public correspondence as "A Federal Farmer" and the New York committee opposing the Constitution was called the "Federal ...
Anti-Federalist Papers is the collective name given to the works written by the Founding Fathers who were opposed to, or concerned with, ...
Anti-Federalist. [7] An Assemblyman William Findley: Brutus: Robert Yates, [2] Melancton Smith Anti-Federalist. After Marcus Junius Brutus, a Roman republican involved in the assassination of Caesar. Published sixteen essays in the New York Journal between October 1787 and April 1788. Candidus Benjamin Austin [2] Cato George Clinton [2] Anti ...
Among the Federalists, Alexander Hamilton (as Publius), Edward Carrington, and Noah Webster acknowledged the Federal Farmer as, in Hamilton's words, the "most plausible" Anti-Federalist. [6] Only one Federalist, Timothy Pickering, took the time to develop a complete critical response to the Federal Farmer. Though this was not published during ...
The Massachusetts Compromise was a solution reached in a controversy between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over the ratification of the United States Constitution.The compromise helped gather enough support for the Constitution to ensure its ratification and led to the adoption of the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights.
This category contains people and groups that were part of the first American Anti-Federalist movement of the 1780s. This movement opposed the creation of a stronger national government under the Constitution. This is a distinct meaning from anti-Federalist as the term applies to the 1790s, where it applied to those who opposed the policies of ...
The Anti-Federalist critique soon centered on the absence of a bill of rights, which Federalists in the ratifying conventions promised to provide. Washington and Madison had personally pledged to consider amendments, realizing that they would be necessary to reduce pressure for a second constitutional convention that might drastically alter and ...
This is a convoluted sentence. 'In order to'—PLEASE just 'to'. Sift through for redundant words: 'compromise ideas like this one' (remove 'one'); 'In making their arguments, the Anti-Federalists appealed to both historical and theoretic evidence in making their case.' (we don't need both first AND last phrases).