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- After ratification, the anti-Federalists worked within the Constitution's bounds. They expected Federalists to do so as well, holding them to their ratification fight pledge that the Constitution granted the national government only specifically listed powers.
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Opponents of ratification were called Anti-Federalists. Anti-Federalists feared the power of the national government and believed state legislatures, with which they had more contact, could better protect their freedoms.
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Largely as a result of pressure in several ratifying conventions, the Federalists promised to add a Bill of Rights to the Constitution. (Rhode Island and North Carolina had refused to approve the Constitution until they saw the Bill of Rights in place.)
After the Constitutional Convention, the absence of a bill of rights emerged as a key part of the debates over ratification. Anti-Federalists—those who opposed the Constitution —pointed to the missing bill of rights as a fatal flaw...
In the ratification debate, the Anti Federalist arguments opposed the Constitution. They complained that the new system threatened liberties.
Sep 27, 2017 · More in Constitution Daily Blog. On this day in 1787, the debate over the newly written Constitution began in the press after an anonymous writer in the New York Journal warned citizens that the document was not all that it seemed.
Mar 4, 2020 · The Anti- Federalists had expressed these reservations at the Constitutional Convention long before the ratification debates, and their concerns helped bring about concessions and compromises to protect the people from potential federal oppression.
Even the proponents of the Constitution did not find the system flawless: among others, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (Document C) shared Anti-Federalists’ concerns about the lack of a Bill of Rights in the draft presented to the states for ratification.
