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antifederalist

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an·ti·fed·er·al·ist also An·ti·fed·er·al·ist  (nt-fdr--lst, -fdr-lst, nt-)
n.
An opponent of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
anti·feder·al·ist adj.
anti·feder·al·ism n.
Antifederalist [ˌæntɪˈfɛdərəlɪst -ˈfɛdrə-]
n
1. (Historical Terms) (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) US History a person who opposed the ratification of the Constitution in 1789 and thereafter allied with Thomas Jefferson's Antifederal Party, which opposed extension of the powers of the federal Government
2. (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (often not capital) any person who opposes federalism
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1421, 1517-18 (indicating that the framers of the 1789 Judiciary Act desired to reassure Antifederalists, with the result that "the restrictions on the national judicial power in the Act vastly outweighed its expansiveness"); id.
Federal question jurisdiction and Justice Holmes by Woolhandler, Ann; Collins, Michael G. / Notre Dame Law Review
137) It was also well understood that the Antifederalists would have objected had international agreements been able to be ratified by a mere majority of both houses.
Medellin and the future of international delegation by McGinnis, John O. / Yale Law Journal
125) Pennsylvania's legislature, prompted by an Antifederalist governor, passed a statute nullifying the district court decision and requiring the Rittenhouse estate to pass the loan certificates to the Commonwealth.
Pleading sovereign immunity: the doctrinal underpinnings of Hans v. ... by Kian, Sina / Stanford Law Review
 
 
 
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