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Generally, Anti-federalists were more likely to be small farmers than lawyers and merchants and came from rural areas rather than the urban areas many federalists represented. [4] In their journey to protect the interests of rural areas and farmers, the Anti-Federalists believed: They believed the Constitution, as written, would be oppressive [5]
The Anti-Federalists proved unable to stop the ratification of the US Constitution, which took effect in 1789. Since then, the essays they wrote have largely fallen into obscurity. [ 9 ] The influence of their writing, however, can be seen to this day – particularly in the nature and shape of the United States Bill of Rights .
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.
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a three-volume work by John Adams, written between 1787 and 1788.The text was Adams’ response to criticisms of the proposed American government, particularly those made by French economist and political theorist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, who had argued against bicameralism and separation of powers.
This concern over consolidation was among the most important of the Anti-Federalist objections to the Constitution; they saw the destruction of state sovereignty as inimical to freedom. [27] Honest federalists, in the view of the Federal Farmer, wished for the substantial preservation of the state governments, but sought a federal government ...
Federalist No. 14 is an essay by James Madison titled "Objections to the Proposed Constitution From Extent of Territory Answered". This essay is the fourteenth of The Federalist Papers . It was first published in The New York Packet on November 30, 1787 under the pseudonym Publius, the name under which all The Federalist papers were published.
The work was begun in 1963 and published in 1981 by the University of Chicago Press as a seven-volume set (ISBN 0-226-77573-9); Volume 1 is a work by Storing titled What the Anti-Federalists Were For: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution and Volume 7 is an index to the documents, which comprise Volumes 2 to 6. The original ...
Federalist No. 41, titled "General View of the Powers Conferred by the Constitution", is an essay written by James Madison as the forty-first of The Federalist Papers. These essays were published by Alexander Hamilton , with John Jay and James Madison serving as co-authors, under the pseudonym "Publius."