Answer:
Explanation:
The Anti-Federalists had a strong distrust of government power. A national government with too much power was, as far as they were concerned, a pathway to government oppression. In 1787, for example, “Brutus,” who was probably New York judge Robert Yates, wrote to the citizens of New York, “when the people once part with power, they can seldom or never resume it again but by force.”1
