Handout #6:

To Assist in Outlining Unit Three Introductory Lecture

1 Anti-Federalists agreed in their support for "true" federalism, as contrasted with the "false"
federalism of the Federalists ...
2 Anti-Federalists agreed that Federalist thinking about how to keep government from
exceeding its appointed bounds was defective.
a FEDERALISTS relied on the following methods. Notice that ...
i Relying on filtration rather than reflection ...
ii Pitting faction against faction ...
iii Providing checks between functionally distinct branches ...
b Anti-Federalists replied as follows.
i In general, most but not all Anti-Federalists thought ...
(a) Therefore they favored ...
(b) And ...
(c) And ...
ii About filtration, most Anti-Federalists thought ...
iii About pitting faction against faction, most Anti-Federalists thought ...
iv About checks and balances, different Anti-Federalists took different positions.
(a) Some Anti-Federalists held that ...
(b) Other Anti-Federalists held that ...
3 Anti-Federalists agreed that the Constitution had a stronger than necessary bias
"aristocracy" ...
a What I mean by that is ...
b About aristocratic bias in the Constitution as a whole ...
c About aristocratic bias in each branch.
i In the legislative branch ...
ii In the executive branch ...
(a) A few Anti-Federalists held that ...
(b) But most Anti-Federalists held that ...
iii In the judicial branch ...
(a) They feared ...
(b) They also feared ...
d FEDERALISTS denied excessive aristocratic bias because ...