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Fear of centralized authority is deeply rooted in American history. The struggle over the U.S. Constitution in 1788 pitted the Federalists, supporters of a stronger central government, against the Anti-Federalists, the champions of a more localist vision of politics. But, argues Saul Cornell, while the Federalists may have won the battle over ratification, it is the ideas of the Anti-Federalists that continue to define the soul of American politics.



While no Anti-Federalist party emerged after ratification, Anti-Federalism continued to help define the limits of legitimate dissent within the American constitutional tradition for decades. Anti-Federalist ideas also exerted an important influence on Jeffersonianism and Jacksonianism. Exploring the full range of Anti-Federalist thought, Cornell illustrates its continuing relevance in the politics of the early Republic.



A new look at the Anti-Federalists is particularly timely given the recent revival of interest in this once neglected group, notes Cornell. Now widely reprinted, Anti-Federalist writings are increasingly quoted by legal scholars and cited in Supreme Court decisions -- clear proof that their authors are now counted among the ranks of America's founders.

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• Acknowledgments(p. vii)
• List of Maps(p. xiii)
• List of Abbreviations and a Note on the Notes(p. xv)
• Introduction: The Other Founders(p. 1)
• Part I. Anti-Federalism And The Constitution
• Chapter 1. Ratification and the Politics of the Public Sphere(p. 19)
• The Dynamics of the Public Debate(p. 25)
• The Anti-Federalist Critique(p. 26)
• The Rhetoric of Ratification(p. 34)
• Reading Politics and the Politics of Reading(p. 42)
• Chapter 2. Elite Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional Thought(p. 51)
• Constitutionalism(p. 54)
• The Problem of Federalism and Localism(p. 61)
• The Theory of the Small Republic(p. 68)
• The Public Sphere(p. 74)
• Chapter 3. Popular Anti-Federalist Political and Constitutional Thought(p. 81)
• Middling Constitutionalism(p. 85)
• The Political Sociology of Middling Anti-Federalism(p. 96)
• Centinel and Philadelphiensis: Voices of Radical Democracy(p. 99)
• Plebeian Populism(p. 107)
• The Carlisle Riot: The Constitutionalism of the Crowd(p. 109)
• Plebeian Radicalism and the Public Sphere(p. 114)
• Chapter 4. Courts, Conventions, and Constitutionalism: The Politics of the Public Sphere(p. 121)
• The Oswald Libel Case of 1788(p. 128)
• The Aborted Second Convention Movement(p. 136)
• Part II. Anti-Federalism Transformed
• Chapter 5. The Emergence of a Loyal Opposition(p. 147)
• The Debate over the Meaning of Representation(p. 147)
• Rats versus Antirats(p. 153)
• Anti-Federalism and the Politics of the First Congress(p. 157)
• Chapter 6. Anti-Federalist Voices within Democratic-Republicanism(p. 172)
• Hamiltonianism and the Democratic-Republican Opposition(p. 174)
• Strict Construction and the Original Understanding(p. 187)
• Chapter 7. The Limits of Dissenting Constitutionalism(p. 195)
• The Democratic-Republican Societies(p. 195)
• The Whiskey Rebellion(p. 200)
• Federalism versus Localist Democracy(p. 213)
• Part III. The Anti-Federalist Legacy
• Chapter 8. The Founding Dialogue and the Politics of Constitutional Interpretation(p. 221)
• The Irony of the Search for an Original Intent(p. 221)
• The Sedition Act and the Transformation of Opposition Constitutionalism(p. 230)
• The Principles of' 98(p. 237)
• Chapter 9. Democratic-Republican Constitutionalism and the Public Sphere(p. 246)
• Public Opinion and Dissenting Political Thought(p. 246)
• Responses to the Alien and Sedition Crisis(p. 253)
• The Anti-Federalist Blackstone: St. George Tucker and a Democratic-Republican Jurisprudence(p. 263)
• Chapter 10. The Dissenting Tradition, from the Revolution of 1800 until Nullification(p. 274)
• Clinton versus Madison(p. 275)
• McCulloch v. Maryland and the Collapse of the Madisonian Synthesis(p. 278)
• The Revival of Anti-Fedealism: Robert Yates's Secret Proceedings(p. 288)
• Nullification and the Splintering of the Dissenting Tradition(p. 294)
• Van Buren and the Anti-Federalist Mind(p. 298)
• Epilogue: Anti-Federalism and the American Political Tradition(p. 303)
• Appendix 1. Reprinting of Anti-Federalist Documents(p. 309)
• Appendix 2. Pamphlet, Broadside, and Periodical Republication of Anti-Federalist Documents(p. 316)
• Index(p. 319)
• Map
• Map 1. Ratification of the Constitution(p. 23)

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CHOICE Review

In this important work, Cornell convincingly asserts that Anti-Federalist ideology was central to the dissenting tradition in late-18th- and early-19th-century American politics. His book begins with a careful examination of divisions among different Anti-Federalist factions. Rather than melting away after the ratification of the Constitution, Anti-Federalist ideology became central to a Democratic-Republican loyal opposition that feared a potentially tyrannical concentration of power in the hands of the central government. James Madison's "Report of 1800," written as a response to the Alien and Sedition Acts, sought to check national power with public opinion expressed through the state legislatures. This effort to steer a middle course between nationalism and localism while simultaneously checking tyranny dominated Jeffersonian views of federalism until the 1820s. The Madisonian synthesis began to unravel with the Marshall Court's decision in McCulloch v. Maryland and further splintered with John C. Calhoun's doctrine of nullification. The author cogently demonstrates the significance of Anti-Federalism to early Republican political thought. This book will become a standard work on the Anti-Federalists and greatly enhances understanding of state's rights thought in the period. Upper-division undergraduates and above. J. C. Arndt; James Madison University

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Saul Cornell is assistant professor of history at Ohio State University.