Anti-Federalist

Mr. Berkowitz places the motivation of the tea party movement squarely in the Anti-Federalist tradition and says liberals don't get it because they stopped paying attention to constitutional principles.

No Tea Party Monopoly on Values 2010

In fact, an informed and thoughtful return to the Constitution will take seriously the devotion to individual liberty and limited government shared by the original Federalist proponents of the Constitution and their Anti-Federalist opponents.

Morning Bits Jennifer Rubin 2011

All of these concessions addressed Anti-Federalist demands or concerns.

We the People Michael W. McConnell 2010

The Federalists who won ratification of the Constitution — most notably Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay — shared with their Anti-Federalist opponents the view that centralized power presented a formidable and abiding threat to the individual liberty that it was government 's primary task to secure.

Why Liberals Don Peter Berkowitz 2010

Recognizing they could not block the vote, nineteen Anti-Federalist assemblymen simply did not return to the State House, leaving the body two votes short of a quorum.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Here, as had been the case with Morris throughout the war, the opposition was both local and national—the remnants of the old Constitutionalist party in Pennsylvania, along with the more inchoate but no less avid Anti-Federalist faction in Congress.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

It worked again; a sergeant-at-arms was sent out to collect the Anti-Federalist holdouts, but they gruffly spurned his summons.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

It worked again; a sergeant-at-arms was sent out to collect the Anti-Federalist holdouts, but they gruffly spurned his summons.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Now he and his Virginia colleague, William Grayson, formed the core of a small Anti-Federalist bloc in the new Senate.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Even before the work of the convention became public, an Anti-Federalist writer had denounced it as “the most daring attempt to establish a despotic aristocracy among freemen the world has ever witnessed.”

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010