Thanks. I read through some of it, as most were “sign me up” replies. I saw the full list at the end. I’m reading through a handful now, bookmarked for later.
Just out of curiousity, it was the anti-Federalists?
Patrick Henry and George Mason were among the anti-Federalists, those opposed to ratifying the Constitution.
The Antis were in favor of retaining the Articles of Confederation, our original “constitution”. They could see that the proposed Philadelphia Constitution was going to create a powerful central government that would be threat to liberty. Prophetic.
Yes, a lot of the first few letters responses were “count me in” replies, but further in, relevance to the topic grew.
It was all the Federalist papers, one at a time. Both the pro-and anti-Federalists letters were discussed.
The complete list of that series (attached to the last discussion ) is at:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2683268/posts
There is also an interesting article/discussion about Madison at:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2731449/posts
Enjoy.