Anti Federalist 5 talks about the downside of a union and blast the Scotland England union. The person who wrote this says that the people on the Scottish Parliament who voted against it were commoners and not corrupted by gold. Scotland also had to pay most of the debt. They would send more troops to war. The British also had way more representation with 45 members and Scotland with only a few in the House of commons. In the last war with spain The Scots petition for weapon for defense saying they had no defense. But England disregarded the petition. His closing statement was “Such a government, while it would give us respectability abroad, would not encroach upon, or subvert our liberties at home.”
