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To: fella

“Never forget that it was “Anti-Federalist Papers” that lead to the all so important “Bill of Rights” that we used to have.”

Exactly! I am in the anti-federalist camp. Those in the federalist camp were for big central government as their later actions prove. The anti-federalists knew this was the federalist position and tried to stop it.


37 posted on 05/09/2012 10:26:54 AM PDT by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad
Federalists saw anarchy, then tyranny just around the corner under the hapless Articles of Confederation.

Anti-Federalists feared eventual tyranny under the Constitution.

We have had a good run under the Constitution, depending on how one views things, until FDR or perhaps LBJ.

There is no way these United States would have remained united much beyond 1787 under the Articles.

39 posted on 05/09/2012 10:49:37 AM PDT by Jacquerie (No court will save us from ourselves.)
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