The
Anti-Federalists’ Prescience
P. Schultz
November 1,
2014
These quotes
came to me from a friend. They are worth recalling every so often.
[1] Anti-Federalist Papers: Cato #5:
"In my last number I endeavored to prove...[t]hat we would be governed by
favorites and flatterers, or that a dangerous council would be collected from
the great officers of state, -- that the ten miles square, if the remarks of
one of the wisest men, drawn from the experience of mankind, may be credited,
would be the asylum of the base, idle, avaricious and ambitious, and that the
court would possess a language and manners different from yours" (http://www.constitution.org/afp/cato_05.htm).
“Wherever they
looked in the new Constitution the Anti-Federalists saw threats to civic
virtue. The federal city provided for would breed monarchical
institutions and courtly habits, with their oppressive tendencies and with the
effect 'above all [of] the perpetual ridicule of virtue’[1] (Storing, What the Anti-Federalists Were For, p. 20).
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