Despite losing the immediate argument, Anti-Federalist influence did not end in 1788. Their criticism of the lack of a bill of Rights led to the adoption of the first ten amendments soon after the new Constitution went into effect, and their general opposition to centralized power passed from generation to generation down to the present time.
1 posted on
02/12/2018 12:21:41 AM PST by
Jacquerie
To: Jacquerie
The Anti-Feds were interested in freedom, not empire. The facts are clear 240 years later. Every danger they warned of has happened.
To: Jacquerie
The influence, while continuing, has also been weakening, and is approaching the point that, within the next generation or two, it will merely be a quaint attachment to the way things once were.
3 posted on
02/12/2018 1:59:32 AM PST by
Hieronymus
(It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton)
To: Jacquerie; Publius
I believe Commodore (then captain) John Barry and his sailors were enlisted in rounding up of the absent delegates. Just one more contribution to the founding of our nation by the Father of the US Navy.
4 posted on
02/12/2018 2:57:50 AM PST by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
To: 14themunny; 21stCenturion; 300magnum; A Strict Constructionist; abigail2; AdvisorB; Aggie Mama; ...
Although it’s blog post, I find it worthy of a Federalist/Anti-Federalist ping.
7 posted on
02/12/2018 9:24:47 AM PST by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon)
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