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Anti-Federalist heritage became part of a dissenting constitutional discourse employed by elite and middling groups within the Democratic-Republican party to propound a vision of localism consistent with state authority.
May 16, 2018 · This paper will (1) consider the historical resurgence of the Anti-Federalists, (2) pro pose their proper role in modern constitutional jurisprudence, and (3) study the Supreme Court’s examination of Anti-Federalist influence on the Constitution when making originalist inquiries.
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Jul 13, 2018 · The Anti-Federalists considered the Federalists to overstress devising governing structures that best control people and their potential worst impulses. By contrast, Anti-Federalist philosophy stressed that small self-governing republics served as natural fonts of virtue, and the abundance of virtue would exert sufficient control on individuals.
ANTI-FEDERALIST FEDERALISM: AMERICAN “POPULISM” AND THE SPATIAL CONTRADICTIONS OF US GOVERNMENT IN THE TIME OF COVID-19. JOHN AGNEW. ABSTRACT. The US federal government has been widely criticized for its response to the Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic. Much of the poor response and outcome has been ascribed to President Trump’s personal failure.
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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 Constitution. The previous constitution, called the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, gave state governments more authority.
In the past decade, a new perspective on the nature of Anti-Federalist political thought has begun to emerge, which places them positively in a particular kind of opposi- tion to their Federalist counterparts.
Alternative to an explanatory theory for the silence of the Anti-Federalist comment in historical representation based on an amicable resolution of the issue, there is also the possibility that the Anti-Federalist complainants having been seemingly defeated by Hamilton, Madison and Jay under the pseudonym of"Publius"
