What the Anti-Federalists Were For (Storing - paperback)

Author: Herbert J. Storing

ISBN: 9780226775746

Binding: paperback

Section: Political-Science

Subtitle: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution

The Anti-Federalists, in Herbert J. Storing's view, are somewhat paradoxically entitled to be counted among the Founding Fathers and to share in the honor and study devoted to the founding. "If the foundations of the American polity was laid by the Federalists," he writes, "the Anti-Federalist reservations echo through American history; and it is in the dialogue, not merely in the Federalist victory, that the country's principles are to be discovered." Storing here offers a brilliant introduction to the thought and principles of the Anti-Federalists as they were understood by themselves and by other men and women of their time.