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  1. Sep 26, 2016 · Anti-federal power, anti-national bank, states’ rights, pro-farmer, anti-debt, anti-tax and tariff. Andrew Jackson was a very popular general in 1812 and the first Democratic Party President. When he lost to Adams, it was seen as the populist southerners getting shafted by the Northern elitists and that sentiment would continue until the ...

  2. Ideology. Confederalism. Decentralization. Liberalism. Republicanism. Politics of the United States. Political parties. Elections. 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.

    • 1787; 236 years ago
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  4. Nov 12, 2016 · What is Anti-Federalism. Historically, anti-federalism was the sentiment opposing the strengthening of the federal government, and the ratification of a new Constitution. An example of Anti-Federalist beliefs is the theory that having a strong president of the United States would become a monarchy of sorts.

  5. Jul 13, 2018 · Anti-Federalist leaders included individuals such as Patrick Henry of Virginia and Samuel Adams of Massachusetts. Though brief in existence, the Anti-Federalist movement (1787–89) and the Anti-Federalist Party (1789–1800) exerted a profound and lasting effect on American politics.

  6. May 11, 2018 · Anti-Federalists, in American history, opponents of the adoption of the federal Constitution. Leading Anti-Federalists included George Mason [1], Elbridge Gerry [2], Patrick Henry [3], and George Clinton [4].

  7. Jul 1, 2016 · The Federalists (pro-North, pro-city, pro-protectionism, “big government” conservative-liberals who favored modernization) and the Anti-Federalists (pro-South, pro-rural, “free-trade,” “small government” radical-liberals who favored agrarian democracy) were America’s first political factions.

  8. Anti-Federalist. Anti-federalists were people who opposed the ratification of the U.S. Constitution at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the subsequent strengthening of the federal government. Anti-federalists generally argued for the amendment of the Articles of Confederation instead of their replacement under the Constitution.

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