Anti-Federalist Papers
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Oct 12, 2026
Jordan LorenceGUEST
Well, I sure hope it does because I, I think, you know, and this is ...
Jordan LorenceGUEST
I think the crucial turning point will be how educated are the average American voters to understand this? Because, like, when the Federalist and the Anti-Federalist Papers were written, they were written like op-eds in a newspaper for the common person to read and understand and, and they went through all these things about the importance of checks and balances.
Jordan LorenceGUEST
Do people understand it? And rather than, "Yeah, that pesky Senate, and, uh, you know, electoral college, that's unfair.
Jordan LorenceGUEST
The Supreme Court, they don't do whatever we want.
William CooperHOST
Yeah.
William CooperHOST
So the, the, the people who cite the Federalist Papers instead of the Anti-Federalist Papers, they're way off base.
JackieAUDIENCE
Yeah.
William CooperHOST
[laughs] The intent of the founders was to protect the individual rights and liberties of every single citizen in this country.
William CooperHOST
Then read the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
William CooperHOST
Pay particular attention to the Second Article and Amendment, and then read the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers and all of the things that the Founding Fathers wrote, and you will see that they expected this to happen, and they gave us the tools, the only tools by which they knew we could keep our liberty and our freedom.
William CooperHOST
And I know you don't like to hear it.
William CooperHOST
Scares the hell out of you.
Susan PriceHOST
So bring us from that point.
Clyde ClevelandGUEST
So, so, so it goes back to the, the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers.
Clyde ClevelandGUEST
And, and the Federalists were the, um, centralizers.
Clyde ClevelandGUEST
They're the one that, they, they're the ones that wanted the big, big government and powerful central government and to be like England.
Clyde ClevelandGUEST
You know? So we, we have to, um, we have to defeat that cabal that's been running our country for and, and destroying our country from the very beginning.
Susan PriceHOST
That's it.
Clyde ClevelandGUEST
I mean, you know, it, it starts, started with the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers.
Clyde ClevelandGUEST
I go back to that.
DentonHOST
You know, I hate that term.
DentonHOST
But the farmers I know is talking about, they're the ones that the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers were posted for.
DentonHOST
And when I say posted, obviously, I'm not talking about on social media.
DentonHOST
I'm talking about on doors, you know, to the bars and newspapers.
Joe RussielloHOST
Common Sense, I think, was one of the first books on American – independence from our founding generation I really threw myself into.
Joe RussielloHOST
Then, of course, I got into the Federalist Papers, the Anti-Federalist Papers, and so on.
Joe RussielloHOST
It's just amazing, amazing men in that period of time and and that's that's that just solidified my love for what the idea of america was and can still be again i i would hope now things aren't looking so great but there's that there is always you know there always there's always hope now kevin You've got a pretty unusual background, especially for someone writing a book about the American Republic.
Joe RussielloHOST
You were an Air Force pilot, an airline pilot, and then you worked in financial services.
Paul EngelHOST
It depends on a lot of things.
Paul EngelHOST
Have you read the Constitution? Have you read the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers? Have you read any of the ratification debates or the writings of the Founding Fathers? What is your goal? Do you just want to learn a little bit more? Do you want to teach? Do you want to defend your rights? I got asked this so often, I actually created a wizard on the Constitution Study to help.
Paul EngelHOST
Go to constitutionstudy.com slash wizard and fill out the form.
Paul EngelHOST
I do ask for your name and email address because I'm going to email you a response.
Tara RossGUEST
And literally just went through step by step in a very organized fashion.
Tara RossGUEST
The anti-federalist papers, by contrast, were very disorganized, chaotic mess because people just kind of randomly were like, well, no, no, no, I'm against this.
Tara RossGUEST
So they're just slapping their stuff together.
Tara RossGUEST
And, you know, maybe the federal farmer, you know, he has a series of papers.
Tara RossGUEST
Maybe he was organized within his own mind about how he was going to do that.
Tara RossGUEST
But there was no effort to work together amongst the people who are writing the anti-federalist papers together.
Tara RossGUEST
So they were unsurprisingly less successful because they were just throwing mud at a wall.
Tara RossGUEST
But look, some of their concerns were legitimate.
Timothy LongHOST
A lot of people don't realize how much of a divide that was.
Timothy LongHOST
I mean, you can go read the Federalist Papers and you can see some of what this debate was back in the day, but very few people have ever read the Anti-Federalist Papers, right? Because they were the losers in that Social debate at the time.
Timothy LongHOST
So their view has largely been lost to history.
Timothy LongHOST
But if you go and you look and you read some of that stuff, you can see that many of them were almost prophetic in their predictions about what the judiciary could and would become.