The Albany Antifederal Committee of Albany, New York issued a detailed analysis of the proposed United States Constitution on April 26, 1788. The report appeared in the New York Journal with 26 signatures. Their analysis approached the proposed Constitution from a democratic perspective and found it seriously wanting, though the committee admitted the Articles of Confederation to be faulty. It made a typical Anti-Federalist argument that the Constitution created not a federal government but a consolidated, national government.
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“In inner-party politics, these methods lead, as we shall yet see, to this: the party organization substitutes itself for the party, the central committee substitutes itself for the organization, and, finally, a “dictator” substitutes himself for the central committee.”
—Leon Trotsky (1879–1940)