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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.

See M. Borden, ed., The Antifederalist Papers (1965); C. M. Kenyon, ed., The


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    The Antifederalist Papers » Read Now

    by Morton Borden. 260 pgs.

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    ...depressions, the gloomy forebodings of the Antifederalists sometimes appear to be unwarranted...and occasionally even ludicrous. The Antifederalists were wrong in their...
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    The Federalists, the Antifederalists, and the American Political Tradition » Read Now

    by Wilson Carey McWilliams, Michael T. Gibbons. 140 pgs.

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    In analyzing the debates between the Federalists and the Antifederalists, McWilliams, Gibbons, and their contributors break sharply with interpretations of the founding of America as either the work of pure pragmatists or as the institutionalization of class interests. This study of the very nature...
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    The Case against the Constitution: From the Antifederalists to the Present » Read Now

    by John F. Manley, Kenneth M. Dolbeare. 202 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...AGAINST THE CONTITUTION From the Antifederalists to the Present Edited by John...the Constitution Charles Beard--The antifederalists / Jackson Turner Main etc...
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    The Price of Freedom: Tocqueville, the Framers, and the Antifederalists, in Perspectives on Political Science » Read Now

    by Joseph Alulis. 7 pgs.

    Collections: Literature, Entire Library
    ...Tocqueville, the Framers, and the Antifederalists JOSEPH ALULIS In America...cultivates virtue, he sides with the Antifederalists. But freedom requires force as...
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    Politics without Parties: Massachusetts, 1780-1791 (Chap. 10 "Federalists and Antifederalists") » Read Now

    by Van Beck Hall. 375 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...256 10 Federalists and Antifederalists 294 11 Toward a New...differences between the Federalists and Antifederalists. But in 1790 and 1791 the assumption...and 1788 both...
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    The Foundations of American Citizenship: Liberalism, the Constitution, and Civic Virtue (Chap. 7 "The Anti-Federalists and Civic Virtue") » Read Now

    by Richard C. Sinopoli. 215 pgs.

    Collections: Entire Library
    This study of exemplary writings from the debates over the ratification of the 1787 Constitution deals with the American constitutional founders' understandings of citizenship and civic virtue. Discussion of these debates is set in an analytical and historical context, addressing the rationales for...
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    The Rise and Fall of Democracy in Early America, 1630-1789: The Legacy for Contemporary Politics (Chap. 4 "The Antifederalists and the Conservative Dimension of Democracy") » Read Now

    by Joshua Miller. 158 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...Eighteenth Century 51 4 The Antifederalists and the Conservative Dimension of...but over a way of life that the Antifederalists identified with liberty and the...
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    The Old Dominion and the New Nation, 1788-1801 (Chap. Three "Antifederalist Fears Confirmed") » Read Now

    by Richard R. Beeman. 284 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    ...will find the details of the Virginia Antifederalists continuing hostility to the federal...federal government, first from the Antifederalists and later from the Republican...
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    A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American State (Includes discussion of antifederalists in multiple chapters) » Read Now

    by Max M. Edling. 333 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    What were the intentions of the Founders? Was the American constitution designed to protect individual rights? To limit the powers of government? To curb the excesses of democracy? Or to create a robust democratic nation-state? These questions echo through today's most heated legal and political...
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    Revolutionary America, 1763-1815: A Political History (Discussion of antifederalists begins on p. 127) » Read Now

    by Francis D. Cogliano. 278 pgs.

    Collections: History, Entire Library
    The American Revolution describes and explains the crucial events in the history of the United States between 1763 and 1815, when settlers in North America rebelled against British authority, won their independence in a long and bloddy stuggle and created an enduring republic.Placing the political...

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