Lessons from the Anti-Federalists
Free Thoughts
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What Was James Madison Thinking?
James Madison came in with a very detailed plan. He wanted so far as to give the national government a negative over state legislation. Many anti federalists writing at the time coffed at madison's idea that you could split the atom of sovereignty. The states thought of themselves as their own entities first, and the members of this larger group second.
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