Albany Antifederal Committee
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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.[1] It made a typical Anti-Federalist argument that the Constitution created not a federal government but a consolidated, national government.[2]
[edit] 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.
