Status Updates From What the Anti-Federalists W...

Our political culture is so fundamentally different from what both the Federalists and AFs assumed. The constitution seems to have been made for a very different society with foreign ideas of how politics would work (ie no parties, deeply concerned with virtue, fundamentally local) so that it appears at odds with modern practices

Initially focused on conservative argument that the union was one of states, and that the Constitutional Convention was only to amend the articles, not to replace them, but turned to discussion of principle as the debate over the constitution progressed (12-14). The first principle was that republics ought to be small - only thus could they be representative, equitable, and virtuous (religious) (ch 3).