Index*
| Anti-federalist No. 1: | General Introduction: A Dangerous Plan of Benefit Only to The "Aristocratick Combination." |
| Anti-federalist No. 2: | We Have Been Told of Phantoms. |
| Anti-federalist No. 3: | New Constitution Creates a National Government; Will Not Abate Foreign
Influence; Dangers of Civil War And Despotism. |
| Anti-federalist No. 4: | Foreign Wars, Civil Wars, and Indian Wars -- Three Bugbears. |
| Anti-federalist No. 5: | Scotland and England -- A Case in Point. |
| Anti-federalist No. 6: | The Hobgoblins of Anarchy And Dissensions Among The States. |
| Anti-federalist No. 7: | Adoption of The Constitution Will Lead to Civil War. |
| Anti-federalist No. 8: | The Power Vested in Congress of Sending Troops For Suppressing
Insurrections Will Always Enable Them to Stifle The First Struggles of Freedom. |
| Anti-federalist No. 9: | A Consolidated Government Is a Tyranny. |
| Anti-federalist No. 10: | On The Preservation of Parties, Public Liberty Depends. |
| Anti-federalist No. 11: | Unrestricted Power Over Commerce Should Not Be Given The National Government. |
| Anti-federalist No. 12: | How Will The New Government Raise Money? |
| Anti-federalist No. 13: | The Expense of The New Government. |
| Anti-federalist No. 14: | Extent of Territory Under Consolidated Government Too Large to Preserve Liberty or Protect Property. |
| Anti-federalist No. 15: | Rhode Island Is Right! |
| Anti-federalist No. 16: | Europeans Admire And Federalists Decry The Present System. |
| Anti-federalist No. 17: | Federalist Power Will Ultimately Subvert State Authority. |
| Anti-federalist No. 18-20: | What Does History Teach? (Part I) What Does History Teach? (Part II) |
| Anti-federalist No. 21: | Why The Articles Failed. |
| Anti-federalist No. 22: | Articles of Confederation Simply Requires Amendments, Particularly For Commercial Power And Judicial Power; Constitution Goes Too Far. |
| Anti-federalist No. 23: | Certain Powers Necessary For The Common Defense, Can And Should Be Limited. |
| Anti-federalist No. 24: | Objections to a Standing Army. (Part I) |
| Anti-federalist No. 25: | Objections to a Standing Army. (Part II) |
| Anti-federalist No. 26: | The Use of Coercion by The New Government. (Part 1) |
| Anti-federalist No. 27: | The Use of Coercion by The New Government. (Part 2) |
| Anti-federalist No. 28: | The Use of Coercion by The New Government. (Part 3) |
| Anti-federalist No. 29: | Objections to National Control of the Militia. |
| Anti-federalist No. 30-31: | A Virginia Anti-federalist on the Issue of Taxation. |
| Anti-federalist No. 32: | Federal Taxation and the Doctrine of Implied Powers. (Part I) |
| Anti-federalist No. 33: | Federal Taxation and the Doctrine of Implied Powers. (Part II) |
| Anti-federalist No. 34: | The Problem of Concurrent Taxation. |
| Anti-federalist No. 35: | Federal Taxing Power must Be Restrained. |
| Anti-federalist No. 36: | Representation and Internal Taxation. |
| Anti-federalist No. 37: | Factions and the Constitution. |
| Anti-federalist No. 38: | Some Reactions to Federalist Arguments. |
| Anti-federalist No. 39: | Appearance and Reality-- the Form Is Federal; the Effect Is National. |
| Anti-federalist No. 40: | On the Motivations and Authority of the Founding Fathers. |
| Anti-federalist No. 41-43: | The Quantity of Power The Union Must Possess Is One Thing; The Mode of Exercising The Powers Given Is Quite a Different Consideration. (Part I) |
| Anti-federalist No. 41-43: | The Quantity of Power the Union must Possess Is One Thing; the Mode of Exercising the Powers Given Is Quite a Different Consideration. (Part II) |
| Anti-federalist No. 44: | What Congress Can Do; What a State Can Not. |
| Anti-federalist No. 45: | Powers of National Government Dangerous to State Governments; New York as an Example. |
| Anti-federalist No. 46: | Where Then Is the Restraint? |
| Anti-federalist No. 47: | "Balance" of Departments Not Achieved under New Constitution. |
| Anti-federalist No. 48: | No Separation of Departments Results in No Responsibility. |
| Anti-federalist No. 49: | On Constitutional Conventions. (Part I) |
| Anti-federalist No. 50: | On Constitutional Conventions. (Part 2) |
| Anti-federalist No. 51: | Do Checks and Balances Really Secure the Rights of the People? |
| Anti-federalist No. 52: | On the Guarantee of Congressional Biennial Elections. |
| Anti-federalist No. 53: | A Plea for the Right of Recall. |
| Anti-federalist No. 54: | Apportionment And Slavery: Northern And Southern Views. |
| Anti-federalist No. 55: | Will the House of Representatives Be Genuinely Representative? (Part 1) |
| Anti-federalist No. 56: | Will the House of Representatives Be Genuinely Representative? (Part 2) |
| Anti-federalist No. 57: | Will the House of Representatives Be Genuinely Representative? (Part 3) |
| Anti-federalist No. 58: | Will the House of Representatives Be Genuinely Representative? (Part 4) |
| Anti-federalist No. 59: | The Danger of Congressional Control of Elections. |
| Anti-federalist No. 60: | Will the Constitution Promote the Interests of Favorite Classes? |
| Anti-federalist No. 61: | Questions and Comments on the Constitutional Provisions Regarding the Election of Congressmen. |
| Anti-federalist No. 62: | On the Organization and Powers of the Senate. (Part 1) |
| Anti-federalist No. 63: | On the Organization and Powers of the Senate. (Part 2) |
| Anti-federalist No. 64: | On the Organization and Powers of the Senate. (Part 3) |
| Anti-federalist No. 65: | On the Organization and Powers of the Senate. (Part 4) |
| Anti-federalist No. 66: | On The Power of Impeachment |
| Anti-federalist No. 67: | Various Fears Concerning the Executive Department. |
| Anti-federalist No. 68: | On the Mode of Electing the President. |
| Anti-federalist No. 69: | The Character of the Executive Office. |
| Anti-federalist No. 70: | The Powers and Dangerous Potentials of His Elected Majesty. |
| Anti-federalist No. 71: | The Presidential Term of Office. |
| Anti-federalist No. 72: | On The Electoral College; on Re-eligibility of the President. |
| Anti-federalist No. 73: | Does the Presidential Veto Power Infringe on the Separation of Departments? |
| Anti-federalist No. 74: | The President as Military King. |
| Anti-federalist No. 75: | A Note Protesting the Treaty-making Provisions of the Constitution. |
| Anti-federalist Nos. 76-77: | An Anti-federalist View of the Appointing Power under the Constitution. |
| Anti-federalist Nos. 78-79: | The Power of the Judiciary. (Part 1) |
| Anti-federalist No. 80: | The Power of the Judiciary. (Part 2) |
| Anti-federalist No. 81: | The Power of the Judiciary. (Part 3) |
| Anti-federalist No. 82: | The Power of the Judiciary. (Part 4) |
| Anti-federalist No. 83: | The Federal Judiciary and the Issue of Trial by Jury. |
| Anti-federalist No. 84: | On the Lack of a Bill of Rights. |
| Anti-federalist No. 85: | Concluding Remarks: Evils under Confederation Exaggerated; Constitution must Be Drastically Revised Before Adoption. |
*The Anti-Federalist Papers, Edited with an
Introduction by Morton Borden, Michigan State University Press, 1965, Library of Congress
Catalog Card Number: 65-17929. I encourage you to obtain the book by
Borden and review the editorial comments and background information on these writings.
As it was with those in favor of the proposed constitution, there were a number of
writers who were opposed to its ratification. Although not as organized as the proponents
of the constitution, a number of these writers in disparate portions of the new states
made several significant points which, though they did not carry the day in the
constitutional ratification debates, did raise important issues for the new American
republic. Some of the issues raised in these papers resulted in the adoption of the Bill
of Rights, and have impacted some decisions of the United States Supreme Court on
important constitutional questions. GWR.
