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Anti-federalist

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An`ti-fed´er`al`ist
n.1.One of party opposed to a federative government; - applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States.


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One should take Broadwater's biography to be another step in the rehabilitation of the Constitution's anti-federalist opponents.
That shortcoming was so grave, critics known as anti-Federalists said, that the states should refuse to vote for ratification of the Constitution.
Though Wilson's speech is not considered in history to be part of the group of articles written to promote and defend the Constitution called the Federalist Papers, it is worth noting that much of the anti-federalist (anti-Constitution) ink was put to paper in response to Wilson's speech and not to the legendary series of 85 letters known to history as the Federalist Papers.
 
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