> The Antifederalists put their libertarian-democratic case staunchly: the rich and well-born few were trying to create a strong government in order to tax and mulct the poorer and productive many for their own power and profit.
Isn't this what America got with the United States government?
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2024/03/murray-n-rothbard/the-twilight-of-the-antifederalists/
> From the insolence of great men, from the tyranny of the rich—from the unfeeling rapacity of the excise-man and Tax-gatherer—from the misery of despotism—from the expense of supporting standing armies, navies, placemen, sinecures, federal cities, Senators, Presidents and a long train of et ceteras Good Lord deliver us.
–DeWitt Clinton
> The meeting at Philadelphia in 1787 for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, got the name of a Convention (I believe before long that of a Conspiracy would have been more Significant), [and] paid no more regard to their orders and credentials than Caesar when he passed the Rubicon. Under an Injunction of Secrecy they carried on their works of Darkness until the Constitution passed their usurping hands.
–Abraham Yates, as quoted in Staughton Lynd, “Abraham Yates’ History of the Movement for the U.S. Constitution,” *The William and Mary Quarterly* (April 1963): 223–45.
