George Washington. George Washington. Q1: Washington - Father of our Country. Anti-Federalists. Q2 : Modern Application of Anti-Federalist Complaints. John Hancock. Patrick Henry. Samual Adams. Richard Henry Lee. Federalist Papers. The Federalist Papers Online. Q4: The Campaign for our Government. The Federalist #10. James Madison. Alexander Hamilton. Q3 : On the Mischief of Factions. First states to ratify. Federalists v. Anti-Federalists - A Comparison. Q5: The Modern Argument. Anti-Federalist Papers: Pennsylvania Minority. December 12, 1787 After the Pennsylvania Convention ratified the new constitution on December 12, 1787, by a vote of 46 to 23, twenty-one members of the minority signed a dissenting address that ap peared in the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser on December 18, 1787.
The address was subsequently reprinted, often in Pennsylvania and other states, becoming in some way a semi-official statement of anti-federalist objections to the new Constitution. Federalist Papers Picture.