Albany Antifederal Committee

The Albany Antifederal Committee of Albany, New York issued a detailed analysis of the proposed United States Constitution on April 26, 1788. The report appeared in the "New York Journal" with 26 signatures. Their analysis approached the proposed Constitution from a democratic perspective and found it seriously wanting, though the committee admitted the Articles of Confederation to be faulty. [Main, 139, 173, 181.] It made a typical Anti-Federalist argument that the Constitution created not a federal government but a consolidated, national government. [MacClay, 30.]

References

* MacClay, Wilfred. "The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America". Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1994.
* Main, Jackson Turner. "The Antifederalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788". Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press. 1961.

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