Boone Ayala’s Reviews > What the Anti-Federalists Were for: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution > Status Update

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).