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Brutus was the pen name of an Anti-Federalist in a series of essays designed to encourage New Yorkers to reject the proposed Constitution. His essays are considered among the best of those written to oppose adoption of the proposed constitution. [1] They paralleled and confronted The Federalist Papers during the ratification fight over the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Anti-Federalist Papers is the collective name given to the works written by the ... Brutus No. 1: Federalist No. 10, 32, 33 ...
Robert Yates was born January 27, 1738, in Schenectady, New York, the oldest of twelve children of merchant Joseph Yates and Maria (née Dunbar) Yates. Among his large family was uncle Abraham Yates Jr., who served as mayor of Albany in the 1790s and cousin Peter Waldron Yates, who was a Continental Congressman and New York State Assemblyman.
Anti-Federalist. [7] An Assemblyman William Findley: Brutus: Robert Yates, [2] Melancton Smith Anti-Federalist. After Marcus Junius Brutus, a Roman republican involved in the assassination of Caesar. Published sixteen essays in the New York Journal between October 1787 and April 1788. Candidus Benjamin Austin [2] Cato George Clinton [2] Anti ...
The Federal Farmer was the pseudonym used by an Anti-Federalist who wrote a methodical assessment of the proposed United States Constitution that was among the more important documents of the ratification debate. The assessment appeared in the form of two pamphlets, the first published in November 1787 and the second in December 1787. [1]
The work was begun in 1963 and published in 1981 by the University of Chicago Press as a seven-volume set (ISBN 0-226-77573-9); Volume 1 is a work by Storing titled What the Anti-Federalists Were For: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution and Volume 7 is an index to the documents, which comprise Volumes 2 to 6. The original ...
The goal of Federalist No. 9 was to counter the argument by Montesquieu raised by the anti-federalists. [3]: 127 This idea was pushed heavily in the Anti-Federalist Papers, argued by Agrippa, Brutus, Cato, and Centinel. They believed that a unification of the states would create a nation too large to be a republic, citing the tyranny that ...
Federalist No. 1 Alexander Hamilton, author of Federalist No. 1 Author Alexander Hamilton Language English Series The Federalist Publisher The Independent Journal Publication date October 27, 1787 Publication place United States Media type newspaper Preceded by none Followed by Federalist No. 2 Text Federalist No. 1 at Wikisource Federalist No. 1, titled "General Introduction", is an essay by ...