Jay Cost is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the Center for Faith and Freedom at Grove City College.
Constitutionally Speaking
Jay Cost and Luke Thompson make the case that all Americans should study the Constitution.
Episode 17: Evaluating the Anti-Federalists
Jay and Luke finish their discussion of the Anti-Federalists by asking: What did they get right?
In this episode of Constitutionally Speaking, Jay and Luke finish their discussion of the Anti-Federalists by asking: What did they get right? The Bill of Rights is a great achievement, a kind of second governing charter adopted due to their opposition to the Constitution. More broadly, they advocated a vision of republican government, anchored to civic virtue and suspicious of outside, powerful elites, that would continue to shape the political debate for more than a century.
Recommended Readings
- James Madison, “Public Opinion,” 1791
- Andrew Jackson, Veto Message Regarding the Bank of the United States, 1832
- Progressive Party, 1912 Platform
Mr. Thompson is a Republican political consultant.
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