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    An anti-federalist is opposed to a federal system of government where power is divided between a central government and local governments. Anti-federalists do not want power to be centralized and prefer power to remain local. They were against the ratification of the US Constitution because it created a stronger central federal government.

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    An anti-federalist is opposed to a federal system of government where power is divided between a central government and local governments. Anti-federalists do not want power to be centralized and prefer power to remain local. They were against the ratification of the US Constitution because it created a stronger central federal government.

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    Meaning of anti-federalist in English

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    anti-federalist
    adjective • POLITICS • UK UK  /ˌæn.tiˈfed.ər.əl.ist / US  /ˌæn.t ̬iˈfed.ɚ.əl.ist / (also mainly US anti-

    federal)

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    opposed to a federalist system of government (= one in which power is divided


    between a central government and several local ones):

    • The Foreign Secretary assured anti-federalist MPs that he would not agree to
    anything that limited British sovereignty.

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    anti-federalist
    noun [ C ] UK  /ˌæn.tiˈfed.ər.əl.ist / US  /ˌæn.t ̬iˈfed.ɚ.əl.ist /

     

    someone who is opposed to a system of government in which power is divided


    between a single central government and several regional ones:

    • Many voters are staunch anti-federalists.

    (Definition of anti-federalist from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

    EXAMPLES of anti-federalist

    anti-federalist
    My own position was firmly anti-federalist.
    From the Cambridge English Corpus 

    The negative label of ' 'anti-federalist' ' was pinned to those who opposed ratification of the
    constitution during the debates of 1787-88, especially its provision for a more powerful national
    government.
    From the Cambridge English Corpus 

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    I am not an anti-federalist but a realist.
    From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 

    This is a federalist dream and an anti-federalist nightmare and it has no reality.


    From the Hansard archive 

    We have chosen to vote against the report, partly for reasons of legal security and partly out of
    consideration for the anti-federalist principle.
    From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English 

    Those who signed it cannot agree whether it is a federalist, centralising treaty, or a


    decentralising anti-federalist treaty.
    From the Hansard archive 

    There are also powerful anti-federalist forces.


    From the Hansard archive 

    The first parties were anti-federalist and federalist.


    From Wikipedia 

    It was inevitable that the occasion should be seized by the anti-federalists to raise the federalist
    bogy.
    From the Hansard archive 

    Some anti-federalists continued to fight the issue after the constitution had been ratified, and
    threatened the entire nation with another constitutional convention.
    From Wikipedia 

    These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of
    the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.

    What is the pronunciation of anti-federalist? 

    Translations of anti-federalist

    in Chinese (Traditional)

    反 主義的, 反 制 的, 反 主義者…
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    in Chinese (Simplified)

    反联邦主义的, 反联邦制度的, 反联邦主义者…

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