Alexander Hamilton thought that adding in the Bill of Rights to the Constitution could be dangerous. He says that listing people’s rights could give the government cause to restrict rights and power from the …show more content…
Anti-Federalists wanted the states to rule supreme. Anti-Federalists felt like it was important for the people to have the power. Anti-Federalists wanted a decentralized government, meaning that the top-decision don’t come from one source, but throughout the government. Anti-Federalists wanted there to be a “one,states, one vote” system. This gives the states power since the national government depends on the states. Famous Anti-Federalists are Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee. Anti-Federalists did not want a strong central government, “And are by this clause invested with the power of making all laws, proper and necessary, for carrying all these into execution; and they may so exercise this power as entirely to annihilate all the state governments, and reduce this country to one single government.“, evident by this quote. Anti-Federalists wanted to have a Bill of Rights to protect individual rights. The Bill of Rights would protect the rights of the people since they are all written down clearly. Anti-Federalists did not want a militia, “It might be here shewn, that the power in the federal legislative, to raise and support armies at pleasure, as well in peace as in war, and their control over the militia, tend, not only to a consolidation of the government, but the destruction of liberty.“, evident in this quote. They thought it would bring “the destruction of