Comparing The Articles Of Confederation And Anti-Federalism

Within less than a decade of the founding of the Article of Confederation, the founding fathers gather during the hot summer days in Philadelphia in 1787 to modify the Article of Confederation. Initially, the founding fathers had no plans in replacing the Article of Confederation with the Constitution. The federalist advocated the Constitution; however, the anti-federalist rejected it because it support a strong national government. As a result, the anti-federalist did not approve the Constitution because they fear and had many concerns of a government system based on a strong federal government. From the beginning, the anti-federalist favored a government controlled by the state. The constitution allows the federal government to pass taxes, raise an army, and regulate the nation commerce. This oppose the foundation belief of an anti-federalist. By passing the Constitution to grant the federal government more powers, it defeated

Although, the anti-federalist wanted the legislative branch to have more power over among the three branches. Increasing the legislative branch power will increase the state power in the government. Favoring the anti-federalist idea of a strong state ruling government. In addition, the constitution favor a position in the executive branch, the president. The anti-federalist were against the president because it is similar to a king in a monarch. Since the amount of people in congress compare to the people was small, the anti-federalist feared that the congress will only focus on the few elites among the people the congress control. Finally, the congress were against the judicial branch because they feared that the Supreme Court was too powerful. By having a Supreme Court, it feared that it will take away the power from the states and local courts. Which will lead to the government to take away the people’s