Pros And Cons Of The Anti Federalists

The Anti-Federlists are a poltical party that wrote essays that questiones and even pursuade people to not have strong governement.In The Anti-Federalist, Brutus states that a Republic government works only with smaller nations where people’s voices can be heard otherwise the government will gradually become a totalitarian state since it is in human nature to want to be dominant. As the Anti-federalists predicted, the size of a nation will affect how it governs its people. As its population increased the United States government shifted the power from the people to the government officials, who are making political decisions on behalf of their self-interest.
The U.S Constitution clearly states that the government is established for the people and by the people, but that is not entirely true. The idea was that people were able to voice their opinion in how the government should work, but since creating the method of electing state …show more content…
This notes the unlimited power the government is taking from the people.For example, our institutional methods on how we elect our officials; we elect our presidents among the candidates our official representatives pick. We as the people do not technically choose who we elect as our chief officer , and that minimizes our power within our nation. The Anti-Federalists were warning us from this situation, according to World Net Daily, Our constitution “authorizes the Congress ‘to do anything which in their judgment will tend to provide for the general welfare’ “ (Mercer, 1). That gives congress and all its other party to have unlimited power. The Anti-federalists were very clear that“when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it again but by force”.That is one of the many signs the Anti-Federalists were warning us about: the result of power