All Posts Tagged With: "Antifederalists"
Antifederalists Vindicated
If the Antifederalists were still on the scene today, they might be saying — as they would have been saying right along — “Told you so.”
21May2010 | Sheldon Richman | 15 comments | ContinuedApril Fool’s: Census Day
Did you mail your census form in? You can be fined up to $5,000 for not doing so and for refusing to cooperate when you are visited by a deputy of the U.S. government, who will come to your home to get the answers out of you if you happen to lose your form. Fined? [...]
1Apr2010 | Sheldon Richman | 4 comments | ContinuedThe Power to Tax Is the Power
It would be nice if we could count on the court, at the very least, to forbid Congress from achieving a goal by means that violate freedom if means are available that do not. But let’s hold our breath.
27Nov2009 | Sheldon Richman | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Letters of Centinel: Attacks on the U.S. Constitution, 1787-1788 by Samuel Bryan edited and introduced by Warren Hope
Fifth Season Press • 1998 • 160 pages • $19.99 paperback Understanding the Antifederalist complaint against the Constitution requires a sympathetic ear and an active historical imagination. It is not easy for a generation taught to revere the Constitution as holy writ to recognize what the Antifederalists feared in the form and powers of the [...]
1Jan2000 | Richard M. Gamble | 24 comments | ContinuedHow Much Do You Know About Liberty? (a quiz)
Try your hand at answering the following questions: 1. What method of resolving disputes did trial by jury replace? 2. Which great American patriot was called the “Prince of Smugglers”? 3. What bulwark of American liberty do we owe to the Antifederalists? 4. How many slaves were liberated by Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation? 5. After the [...]
1Jun1996 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | Continued-
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