Anti-Federalists argued that branches of government would keep each other in balance. the Constitution would make states less powerful. the Constitution would create a Republican government. a Republic should protect people from the government and from each other.

Anti-Federalists argued that the Constitution would make states less powerful. They believed that the Constitution offered more authority to the federal government while taking away more authority from local governments and the state. Anti-Federalists dreaded that the state was big for the national government to answer concerns of public on the state.