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Anti-Federalist Paper

My position as an Anti-Federalist is to oppose the creation of a stronger U.S. federal government and which later opposed the ratification of the Constitution of 1787. The Anti-Federalist rejected the term and argued that they were the true Federalists. In both their correspondence and their local groups they tried to capture the term. We the Anti-Federalist were composed of diverse elements, such as those who opposed to the Constitution because they thought that a stronger government threatened the sovereignty and prestige of the...

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