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To: Pontiac

You are perfectly free to summarize, simplify and index the Anti-Federalist Papers.


4 posted on 04/27/2018 2:13:08 AM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Jacquerie

I’ll put it on my list of things to do.

Just saying that a true student of the constitution should study both.

The insights of the anti-Federalist are profound in light of the history that follows them


5 posted on 04/27/2018 2:16:30 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Jacquerie; Pontiac

Serious question. Would it be more accurate to say “confederalist” instead of anti-federalist? I mean, my sense of it is that the people who opposed federalism were FOR the continuation of a system of sovereign states with a weak central government. And in turn, weren’t the federalists against confederalism? Therefore could be call anti-confederalists?

This isn’t idle musing. I’m wording if the confederalists of the day fell into the trap of using language dictated by the federalists...just as libs largely control the language today. Ex: Anti-abortionist vs right to lifer.


9 posted on 04/27/2018 4:35:56 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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