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  2. Brutus was the pen name of an Anti-Federalist in a series of essays designed to encourage New Yorkers to reject the proposed Constitution. His essays are considered among the best of those written to oppose adoption of the proposed constitution. [1]

  3. “Brutus” was the pseudonym for one of the most forceful Anti-Federalist voices during the ratification debates over the U.S. Constitution. While scholars still debate the author of the Brutus Essays , most believe that they were written by New York Anti-Federalist Robert Yates.

  4. Jan 27, 2016 · “Brutus,” a New York Antifederalist, or opponent of the proposed Constitution (generally assumed to have been Robert Yates, a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention), anticipated by two weeks the opening paragraph of Federalist No. 1 (1787), also addressed to the people of New York.

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  5. Brutus pointed to the Necessary and Proper Clause (1.8.18) and the Supremacy Clause (6.2.0) as sources of immense power conferred upon the federal government by the Constitution. According to Brutus, the two clauses, essentially render the various State governments powerless.

  6. The essays were widely reprinted and commented on throughout the American states. The author is thought by most scholars to have been Robert Yates, a New York judge, delegate to the Federal Convention, and political ally of anti-federalist New York Governor George Clinton.

  7. Sep 27, 2017 · In the Essays of Brutus, an anonymous author worried that without any limitations, the proposed Constitution would make “the state governments… dependent on the will of the general government for their existence.” The Anti-Federalists mobilized against the Constitution in state legislatures across the country.

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