Source: The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates: The Clashes and Compromises That Gave Birth to Our Government, ed. Ralph Ketcham (New York: Signet Classics, 2003), 322–328. Used by
To the Printers of the Virginia Journal and Alexandria Advertiser. Gentlemen, At this important crisis when we are about to determine upon a government which is not to effect us
The next powers vested by this constitution in the general government, which we shall consider, are those, which authorise them to “borrow money on the credit of the United States,
In my last, I shewed, that the judicial power of the United States under the first clause of the second section of article eight, would be authorized to explain the
It is an important question, whether the general government of the United States should be so framed, as to absorb and swallow up the state governments? or whether, on the
MR. GREENLEAF, I have read with a degree of attention several publications which have lately appeared in favour of the new Constitution; and as far as I am able to
Source: Herbert J. Storing, ed., The Complete Anti-Federalist, (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1981) 2:437-442. I said in my last number, that the supreme court under this constitution would
(Continued.) It may still be insisted that this clause does not take away the trial by jury on appeals, but that this may be provided for by the legislature, under
The second paragraph of sect. 2d. art. 3, is in these words: “In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be
Having in the two preceding numbers, examined the nature and tendency of the judicial power, as it respects the explanation of the constitution, I now proceed to the consideration of
