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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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The topics include Locke, our great founders, and American political life; federalists, anti-federalists, and the Philadelphia constitution; rights in a federalist system; the horizontal and vertical consolidation of the US into an administrative state; how caring too much about important things is destroying constitutional law; and neo-Jacobin nationalism or responsible nationhood.
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