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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“Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.”
—Katharine Whitehorn (b. 1926)