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A Patriot’s view of the history and direction of our Country

lesser courts. Is this the direction of our Country today? The Anti-

Federalists had four key concerns:
 A central government was necessary, but a central

government too strong would result in the state
governments being obsolete. Confusion of the rights and

responsibilities of the states to the people and the central
government, and the reverse, would be confusing to the

people.
 Similarly, too much power in the hands of the people would

be dangerous. Elected officials to the central government
would become more responsive to the politics of the central

government over the needs of the people they represented.
For this reason, more authority to the states was necessary.

 A strong central government would expand its authority and
would no longer rule by the consent of the people, but by

force upon the people. This was the oppression that stoked

the fire to the road to declaring independence, and the
American War for Independence.

 And, as previously mentioned, the protection of individual
liberties was not provided for.

Are these concerns, although some later addressed and ratified
in the Bill of Rights, reflective of the direction of our Country?

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