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May 11, 2018 · Anti-Federalists considered extensive national power problematic for a number of reasons. They complained that the national government could tax them without constraint, that it could build an expensive and dangerous army, and that it could even take away the rights that Americans expected government to protect.
Mar 4, 2020 · Many Federalists, including James Madison, originally worried that a Bill of Rights might weaken the Constitution, or that it was unnecessary because the British Bill of Rights still applied and the Constitution did not explicitly give the national government the power to violate it.
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In a series of reports (1790-91), he presented a program not only to stabilize national finances but also to shape the future of the country as a powerful, industrial nation. He proposed establishment of a national bank, funding of the national debt, assumption of state war debts, and the encouragement of manufacturing.
The main arguments under scrutiny were how much control and power should be vested in the singular national government. Antifederalists, as they came to be called, were the voices warning of tyranny and a new monarchy if too much power was vested in a national body.
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.
Oct 27, 2016 · Reid’s article breathes new life into the notion that those who opposed the bank bill made a persuasive case against it on grounds that ventured beyond the bill’s perceived lack of constitutionality. Instead, Reid demonstrates, those who opposed the bank in the House also attacked the institution on economic and empirical grounds.
Learning Objectives. Understand and be able to apply what Anti-federalists meant by the terms “extended republic” or “consolidated republic.” Analyze and rank the problems the Anti-federalists believed would arise from extending the republic over a vast territory.
