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Echoing influential political theorists like Montesquieu, Brutus feared that a republican form of government could not succeed in a large nation like America. As a result, he favored placing most key powers in the governments closest to the American people: their state and local governments.
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Brutus’ powerful arguments prompted Federalists to articulate a more thorough explanation of what the Constitution meant and why it should be ratified.
The Anti-Federalist papers were written by a variety of authors in opposition to the ratification of the Constitution. Those that were written under the pen name of Brutus are arguably the most cohesive of these documents.
“Brutus,” a New York Antifederalist, or opponent of the proposed Constitution (generally assumed to have been Robert Yates, a New York delegate to the Constitutional Convention), anticipated by two weeks the opening paragraph of Federalist 1, also addressed to the people of New York.
under the pseudonym, Brutus, about a month after the Constitutional Convention adjourned. Over the course of six months, Brutus would publish sixteen essays that presented counter-arguments to The Federalist Papers .
Brutus. Annotations. 1 The government under the Articles of Confederation was not strong enough to manage some of the problems that the nation has experienced. 2 The Constitution written by the convention in Philadelphia is an attempt to solve those problems.
Brutus I, New York Journal, 18 October 1787 The judicial power of the United States is to be vested in a supreme court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Brutus, Letter One (Abridged) 18 October 1787 To the Citizens of the State of New-York.
What are Brutus’ main concerns about the new Constitution? In BRI’s Brutus 1 summary episode, Kirk looks at Brutus 1 and its critiques of the proposed US Constitution during the ratification debates.