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Why did anti-federalist favor a bill of rights?
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Why did anti-federalist favor a bill of rights?

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Federalists argued that the Constitution did not need a bill of rights, because the people and the states kept any powers not given to the federal government. Anti-Federalists held that a bill of rights was necessary to safeguard individual liberty.
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it would protect individual citizen freedom
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