The Anti-Federalists advocated for a system where the local and state governments would be strong, and the central government would be weaker. They believed governments closest to the people would ...

But, write Haivry and Hazony, they faced serious opposition from the anti-Federalists, later Thomas Jefferson’s Democratic-Republicans, ...

In the fractious debates of 1787-88, as the ink dried on a proposed Constitution, a cadre of skeptics—now dubbed Anti-Federalists—peered through the haze of revolutionary optimism to glimpse a ...

On this day in 1787, the debate over the newly written Constitution began in the press after an anonymous writer in the New York Journal warned citizens that the document was not all that it seemed.

The Anti-Federalists had a lot of different grounds for objecting to the new Constitution, but they were still well within the mainstream of American political thought, and many of them would go ...

In this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke finish their discussion of the Anti-Federalists by asking: What did they get right? The Bill of Rights is a great achievement, a kind of ...

Federalists, Anti-Federalists and Understanding History. Share. Resize. Contrary to Peter Berkowitz's "Why Colleges Don't Teach the Federalist Papers" (op-ed, May 7), ...

The Anti-Federalists gave us the Bill of Rights. Judge Andrew Oldham says they can also give us insight on the modern administrative state.

The first of The Federalist Papers were published 225 years ago this weekend. Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Jon Meacham about their ...