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Draw conclusions, why could the anti-federalists believe that the constitution would reduce the power of states?

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The anti-federalists believed that a constitution would erode state sovereignty, creating a strong and powerful government while doing nothing to protect the citizens from federal power (as the Bill of Rights was not included in the constitution). Since the U.S. was such a large country, its many different areas had different needs and demands — one large government, given more power than the anti-federalists thought it should have, seemed to be the first step in forgetting the interests of individual people and returning a system of government more similar to monarchy than what they had come to America to achieve.

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