Little did he know that all of the warnings of the Anti-Federalists about consolidated power and tyranny were right. It was always Mr. Hamilton’s attempt to minimise and laugh off claims of ...

While the opponents of the Constitution, who came to be labeled “Anti-Federalists,” opposed standing armies vociferously, they weren't the only ones. The Father of the Constitution himself ...

Earlier this week I began a series of lectures in one of my classes on the thought of the Anti-Federalists. I began by echoing some of the conclusions of the great compiler and interpreter of the ...

What does the Constitution protect? “If you talk to somebody on the street,” he might say “it protects my right to speech, or it protects my right to go to church, or it protects my right to ...

A West Point think tank has issued a paper warning America about “far right” groups such as the “anti-federalist” movement, which supports “civil activism, individual freedoms and self ...

They began to emerge with disputes over the ratification of the Constitution, becoming known as the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists ... in his Massachusetts region that it was dubbed a ...

MARTIN: The anti-federalists? MEACHAM: The anti-federalists, absolutely. You know, the idea of central authority, the revolution had been about central authority - the power to tax - the ...

Paul G. Summers is a lawyer. He is a former appellate and senior judge, district attorney general, and the Attorney General of Tennessee. Judge Summers resides in Holladay and Nashville.