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 ...

The Anti-Federalists Were Right. He has been decorated with attributes superior in dignity and splendor to those of a king of Great Britain.

While the opponents of the Constitution, who came to be labeled “Anti-Federalists,” opposed standing armies vociferously, they weren't the only ones.

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 ...