The Anti-Federalists were no monolith. Patrick Henry thundered against tyranny, George Mason insisted on a Bill of Rights, but lesser-known figures like Brutus, Federal Farmer, and Cato—pseudonyms ...
Why free speech rights got left out of the Constitution – and added in later via the First Amendment
The new Constitution’s supporters, known as Federalists, faced fierce opposition from Anti-Federalists who charged that a powerful national government, unrestrained by a bill of rights, would ...
In his 1836 eulogy of James Madison, John Quincy Adams called the late president the “Father of the Constitution.” It was not the first time Madison was called that; Jared Ingersoll toasted the former ...
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