Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose ratification of the Constitution? A. They wanted the government to be divided into branches. B. They did not want the country run by political parties. C. They felt it gave the national government too much power. D. They wanted to keep the Articles of Confederation in place.
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Why did the Anti-Federalists oppose ratification of the Constitution? A. They wanted the government to be divided into branches. B. They did not want the country run by political parties. C. They felt it gave the national government too much power. D. They wanted to keep the Articles of Confederation in place.
Solution
The Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the Constitution primarily because of reason C. They felt it gave the national government too much power. They were concerned that the Constitution would centralize authority and potentially lead to a tyrannical government. They also believed it lacked sufficient protection for individual rights, which later led to the addition of the Bill of Rights.
While option D is also correct to some extent, as Anti-Federalists did prefer the Articles of Confederation over the proposed Constitution, their main concern was the potential for an overly powerful central government.
Options A and B are not accurate. The division of government into branches is a feature of the Constitution that was generally agreed upon, and the concept of political parties as we understand them today did not exist in the same form at the time of the Constitution's drafting.
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