why did anti-federalists believe that the constitution was a threat to liberty
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In the year 1787 the debate over the newly written Constitution began in the press after a writer in the New York Journal warned citizens that the document.
Form of government is handed to you by recommendations of a man who merits the confidence of the public but you to recollect that the wisest and best of men may err and their errors if adopted may be dangerous to the community said the author who took the pen name “Cato” to voice his displeasure with parts of a Constitution wined by George Washington, James Madison and Benjamin Franklin.
The anti-federalists believed that the constitution was a threat to liberty as a stronger Government can be a threat to prestige and sovereignty of the localities, states or individuals.
They also believed that the constitution must need a bill of rights.
According to them, it can make the judiciary out of control.