Anti-Federalist Papers: Letters of Agrippa, I-XI.
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James Winthrop. To the People. Many inconveniences and difficulties in the new plan of government have been mentioned by different writers on that subject. Mr. Gerry has given the publick his objections against it, with a manly freedom. The seceding members from the Pennsylvania Assembly also published theirs. Various anonymous writers have mentioned reasons of great weight. Among the many.
The Antifederalists were a diverse coalition of people who opposed ratification of the Constitution. Although less well organized than the Federalists, they also had an impressive group of leaders who were especially prominent in state politics. Ranging from political elites like James Winthrop in Massachusetts to Melancton Smith of New York and Patrick Henry and George Mason of Virginia.
The Anti-Federalist Papers. During the period from the drafting and proposal of the federal Constitution in September, 1787, to its ratification in 1789 there was an intense debate on ratification. The principal arguments in favor of it were stated in the series written by Madison, Hamilton, and Jay called the Federalist Papers, although they were not as widely read as numerous independent.
The Anti-Federalist Papers. The United States Constitution is a pretty remarkable document. It was one of the first in the world to outline a democratic republic as a modern system of government.
James Winthrop on the other hand is an anti-federalist who believes the states should self-govern within themselves. He thought that the states self-governing separately is the reason that American freedom was preserved and still existed. Winthrop is completely against consolidated empires and believes they are full of or will lead to tyranny. He uses the Spanish Empire as an example to back.
John Winthrop and John Adams and their respective works were heavily influenced by their times. Winthrop was a devout Puritan Christian that was escaping a persecuting king in the early to mid-seventeenth century. As a learned and religious man, he came to be the leader of this puritan sect that was to establish a society unlike any other, free from religious corruption that his fellow people.