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Patrick Henry
"Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel.
Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined."
- Patrick Henry, during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution (1788)



Resources
Constitution Society
The Future of Freedom Foundation
Mises




"Brutus"
- This is a series of sixteen essays published in the New York Journal from October 1787 through April 1788. They were published under the name "Brutus" in reference to the man who killed Julius Caesar (who was going to overthrow the Roman Republic). The actual author is thought to be a New York judge named Robert Yates. Yates was a Federal Convention delegate that was aligned with New York Governor George Clinton (himself an anti-federalist).


Cato's Letters
- 144 essays advocating liberty that were published from 1720 to 1723. Authors were John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon.

The anti-federalist "Cato's Letters" published in the New York Journal (September 1787 to January 1788) were probably written by former New York Governor George Clinton. Those anti-federalist papers are listed below.




"Centinel"


Letters from the Federal Farmer
- Richard Henry Lee of Virginia




Writings
The Antifederalists Were Right
- Gary Galles
Decentralization
- Jimmy and Kathryn Cantrell
A Lesson in Anti-Federalism!
- Alan L. Lundy
Natural Born Anti-Federalists
- Ed Cobb
Against Libertarian Centralism
- Gene Healy
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From The Antifederalist Papers, edited with an Introduction by Morton Borden, Michigan State University Press, 1965

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