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1 day ago · The Anti-Federalist writer Agrippa powerfully expressed many of the same reservations about the Constitution as other opponents – that it would create a consolidated government leading to a loss of liberty. But unlike most others, Agrippa was also concerned with the implications a strong central government would have on the economies of the ...
1 day ago · Massachusetts Anti-Federalists Oppose the Three-Fifths Compromise. The ratification of the United States Constitution was the subject of intense debate between 1787 and 1789. One particularly controversial issue was the Three Fifths Compromise, which settled how enslaved people would be counted for purposes of representation and taxation.
3 days ago · Among those opposed to ratification were many small farmers in the North. As this letter written by "A Countryman from Dutchess County [upstate New York]" indicates, Anti-Federalists were concerned about provisions for the establishment of a "standing army" and the absence of a bill of rights.
2 days ago · JM: One could answer this question in lots of different ways, but as a legal theorist, I am most interested in how, as a matter of legal reasoning, making diversity our greatest good and anti-discrimination our greatest evil must necessarily come at the expense of structural guarantees like federalism and the state action requirement, and ...
3 days ago · Where the actual disagreement lay was with Anti-Federalists who thought the proposed supreme law of the land didn’t go far enough to check the executive power of the president, resulting in Constitutional Convention participant George Mason, namesake of the university, refusing to support the document at Virginia’s ratifying convention, she ...
1 day ago · The Federalist Party was a conservative and nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States. Under Alexander Hamilton, it dominated the national government from 1789 to 1801. Defeated by the Democratic-Republican Party in 1800, it became a minority party while keeping its stronghold in New England and ...
3 days ago · There were a couple of Anti-Federalists, but as soon as they see the Virginia Plan and they read it and see its implications, they walked out. So the whole convention is dominated by the Federalists. Historian Gordon S. Wood speaks in El Paso.
