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Why were Anti-Federalists against ratification of the U.S. Constitution?

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The Antifederalists, like John Hancock, were devout revolutionaries that feared that the imposition of a more centralized government could result in an unchecked arbitrary power like that of the British monarchy of which they had just fought a revolutionary war to avoid.
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