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[[File:The_Other_Founders.jpg|thumbnail|left|275px|[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807847860/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807847860&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c4a0f86bbb318d99e401678ab554a4ff The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism & the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788 – 1828] by Saul Cornell]]
[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0807847860/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0807847860&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=c4a0f86bbb318d99e401678ab554a4ff The Other Founders] published by the (University of North Carolina Press ), focuses on the most prominent opponents of the Constitution. The Anti-Federalists or the Other Founders while ultimately unsuccessful in opposing the ratification of the Constitution but played leading roles in both shaping the Bill of Rights and the interpreting the Constitution. Cornell explains who the Other Founders were, what united them in their quest against the ratification of the Constitution and the role they played in interpreting it after ratification.
Essentially three groups of Americans were Anti-Federalists: westerners, middling businessman and southern farmers. While the Anti-Federalists were composed of radically different groups, they made fairly nine fairly consistent arguments against the Constitution’s ratification.
Finally, Cornell does not discuss what, if any role, slavery played in the Anti-Federalist debate. While Southern planters played an important role in the advocacy the state’s rights within the Anti-Federalist movement, he does not explain if slavery shaped their positions.
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