Anti- Federalists

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The formation of our Constitution was a difficult task for our founding fathers. The goal was to establish a new working government to rule an American Nation. This new government would be in the benefit of the citizens as well as the individual person. Just as all great ideals come with great intentions the outcome may not be of the desired result. With the population larger than many other countries to begin with and giving them the opportunity to form their own Constitution to be rule by would be more than enough to separate any social gathering.

Beginning of the Anti-Federalist

The Federalist and the Anti-Federalist are considered to be some of the first political parties of this country. Despite the name of these two parties their views are actually in opposite of there titles. The Federalist group was those in favor of the Constitution and advertised it to the people to ratify it. Those who disagreed or wished to make changes with the newly Constitution, they were accused of have dramatic apposing views to the Federalist parties. However “The truly federalist-minded group was a bit slow on the public-relations uptake and promptly found themselves saddled with the label ‘Anti-Federalist’, with all the negativity and obstructionism the name implied.” (Inerny 67)

The Anti-Feudalists felt that the Articles of Confederation need some revising in the distribution of power. It was their opinion that the Constitution gave to much freedom to the president, not enough power to the local government, and the congress would be to small to properly and productively serve their constituencies. Anti-Federalists feared that with the dominant power in the national government the central government would decay to nothing, leaving the national government unaware of local activities. This would cause the government to run the country by force, creating a new form of Tyranny. The Anti-Feudalists believed that the solutio...