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Anti-Federalists

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Anti-Federalists in American history, opponents of the adoption of the federal Constitution. Leading Anti-Federalists included George Mason , Elbridge Gerry , Patrick Henry , and George Clinton . Later, many of the Anti-Federalists opposed the policies of the Federalist party and of Alexander Hamilton . Bibliography: See M. Borden, ed., The Antifederalist Papers (1965); C. M. Kenyon, ed., The Antifederalists (1966). Author not available, ANTI-FEDERALISTS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

Anti-Federalists
...Carolina voted against ratification of the Constitution. Anti-Federalists were powerful during the presidency of Thomas Jefferson...the nucleus of what later became the Democratic Party . Anti-Federalists Anti-Federalists Anti-Federalists Read more

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...TRADESMEN AND MECHANICKS OF BOSTON When the Constitutional Convention convened in Massachusetts on 9 January 1788, Anti-Federalists were in the majority. Two days earlier “ near four hundred of the most respectable real Tradesmen ”... Read more

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	Constitutional Issues Same After 200 Years - O'Connor ; ...that divided federalists and anti-federalists in 1788 are still the source...Both the federalists and the anti-federalists represented values deeply ingrained...In a sense, federalists and anti-federalists are still competing for control... Read more
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	Building the Bill of Rights ; ...state conventions to appease Anti-Federalists, and in the summer of 1789...being written and ratified. Anti-Federalists were already clamoring for a...speech or religion, he argued, Anti-Federalists should not presume that those... Read more
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