Anti-federalist


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An`ti-fed´er`al`ist


n.1.One of party opposed to a federative government; - applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution of the United States.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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That position often brought Marshall into conflict with his cousin, President Thomas Jefferson, the leading anti-federalist of their time.
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Advocates of a consolidated national union are taken as advancing rational arguments based on pure motives, against their Anti-Federalist, and later Republican, opponents, who argued erroneously, ignorantly, and even disingenuously.
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Anti-Federalist leader of the first rank, signed the resolution calling