Not Everyone Agreed with the Constitution

We've been studying the Federalist Papers.  They are a set of essays, mostly written in newspapers, to convince the public that the new Constitution should be ratified and made the official law of the land.  Federalists were those individuals that wanted the Constitution to be adopted by our Government.  Anti-Federalists were against the ratification of the the Constitution. The three men who wrote the Federalist papers were John Jay, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton.  They used the fake name "Publius", a famous leader of the Roman Republic because they all supported republicanism.

But what about the Anti-Federalist Papers?

Some Anti-Federalists were George Mason, Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, George Clinton, Robert Yates, Mercy Otis Warren and Richard Henry Lee.  They too choose Roman Republic names like Brutus and Cincinnatus to write articles in newspapers for the very same reasons as the Federalists, they wanted a government that was "for the people".  The Anti-Federalists worried that the new Constitution would threaten their basic liberties newly won from Britain and they addressed problems they saw in politics in general in their articles. Most important to the Anti-Federalists was the amount of power the executive branch would have and their fear that a large country would be too difficult to manage effectively.

Both Federalists and Anti-Federalists were talking and debating with each other through newspapers articles.

Want 10 bonus points? Summarize 5 different items that both the Federalists and Anti-Federalists wanted in the Constitution.