The Anti-Federalists Argumentative Analysis

Forming a new government comes with challenges and obstacles that the people need to overcome for the greater good of the country. During the time that the Americans formed the government, arguments were placed into the open to be solved. Solutions that were given, many were rejected and caused a lot of disagreement. Creating a government brought the country into disagreement between the anti-federalists and federalists for the concerns of rights of the people and power that was shared among them. Firstly, the anti-federalists disagreed how the rights were to be given to one another as well as the division of power between the states. Secondly, the federalists were satisfied with the conditions that were given to them, including the power they could have and what human rights that would protect them.
Their main concerns included the power that the government held and the natural rights that the people could have. The Constitution was thought to be “radical in this transition; our rights and privileges are endangered, and the sovereignty of the states will be relinquished… The rights of conscience, trial by jury, liberty of the press … are rendered insecure” (Henry 1). Not only were they afraid of falling into another monarchy, they also believed that the rights of each man would be terminated after the Constitution is put into effect. Anti-federalists doubted the effect of the Constitution in the future due to their stances on natural rights for the people and the control that the national government had over the