anti-federalist

The constitution has stood for over 200 years and even when a sort of anti-federalist civil war occurred, the anti-federalist side adopted it nearly word or word.

There is a history of anonymous political speech in the USA, beginning with the federalist and anti-federalist papers.

Don't forget the Anti-Federalist papers, which contained complaints such as the lack of a Bill of Rights.

Just read the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist papers and you'll see more or less the same debate play out.

Or they were opportunists, and used the Federalist majority to pass legislation intended to, among other things, silence anti-Federalist publications.

Find my anywhere in the federalist papers (or the anti-federalist papers) that says anything about immigration.

Heck, most of the people that fought in the South weren't really pro-slavery as anti-federalist.

The Federalist Papers were written and distributed as part of the public debate, in order to sway those with anti-Federalist leanings.

Southern racists and Northern working class movements made anti-federalist arguments for wildly different reasons.

This actually ties into the anti-federalist argument against the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Specially considering that some people opposed to it during the confederation period because they saw it as another centralized authority (anti-federalist papers).

You can get the minority opinion in the Anti-Federalist papers.

The anti-federalist framers thought the "interstate" part would be a limit, but didn't concieve of a world where every transaction would cross state borders.

The interpretation of the Commerce Clause today is not "perverted." It means more or less what it always has--accounting for Justice Marshall's opinion in Gibbons cementing the Federalist rather than anti-Federalist interpretation of the Clause.

Saying that "left" and "right" were both 50% wrong is like saying the same about "federalist" and "anti-federalist".

In US context it's somewhat ambiguous because of the historical use of the term "Federalist" to denote supporters of the new Constitution (which was more centralized than the Articles of Confederation) and "Anti-Federalist" to denote the opposition.

Anti-federalist isn't original to the those states, Jefferson, the 3rd president, was anti-federalist.