Anti-Federalists

When a group called the Federalists sits down with a group called the Anti-Federalists and hammers out an agreement, that's a compromise.

Chris Bliss: Surprise - It's Bill of Rights Day Chris Bliss 2011

Still, while it is probably true that the executive branch received relatively little attention at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the potentially monarchical character of the presidency got a great deal of attention and criticism in the wider public debate on the Constitution, notably in the writings of those known as the Anti-Federalists.

Letters 2009

Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne, for instance, sniffed that tea-party supporters more closely resemble Anti-Federalists — opponents of the Constitution in 1788 — than they do the Founders.

We the People Michael W. McConnell 2010

To a remarkable extent, the tea-party movement is raising the same questions of constitutional governance that Anti-Federalists (and not a few Federalists) raised in the debates over whether to adopt a new Plan of Union in 1788.

We the People Michael W. McConnell 2010

Tea Partiers, Anti-Federalists, and fiscally conservative Republicans and Democrats to advocate cutting the federal education budget are also impacting state governments and forcing them to make deep cuts to public education.

Derrick Darby: Education Run by the States? #ABadIdea Derrick Darby 2011

Still, while it is probably true that the executive branch received relatively little attention at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the potentially monarchical character of the presidency got a great deal of attention and criticism in the wider public debate on the Constitution, notably in the writings of those known as the Anti-Federalists.

Letters 2009

Thus, by its very nature, representative government tilts toward aristocracy because the few rule over the many (though the aristocratic principle is heavily diluted by having the many judge the few at periodic intervals), which is why the Anti-Federalists plausibly charged that the new Constitution was aristocratic.

The Volokh Conspiracy » More on the Republic vs. Democracy Debate 2010

Tea Partiers, Anti-Federalists, and fiscally conservative Republicans and Democrats to advocate cutting the federal education budget are also impacting state governments and forcing them to make deep cuts to public education.

Derrick Darby: Education Run by the States? #ABadIdea Derrick Darby 2011

Still, while it is probably true that the executive branch received relatively little attention at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, the potentially monarchical character of the presidency got a great deal of attention and criticism in the wider public debate on the Constitution, notably in the writings of those known as the Anti-Federalists.

Letters 2009

Tea Partiers, Anti-Federalists, and fiscally conservative Republicans and Democrats to advocate cutting the federal education budget are also impacting state governments and forcing them to make deep cuts to public education.

Derrick Darby: Education Run by the States? #ABadIdea Derrick Darby 2011