> The anti-federalists penned similar letters ... They were in the "Federalist Papers" as well. > Unfortunately, Bill of Rights may very well be the reason we have the government we do today, not for their content, but because without them, it’s unlikely the Constitution would have been ratified, granting the central government the authority it wanted all along and slowly weathering away the “rights” found in the first ten amendments as the model of “crisis begets tyranny” continued to unfold over the three centuries since it became the law of the land. Nah, tyranny will always find support in the weak. You are kidding yourself otherwise. E: But nice write up. I would give you an A+ even as a leftist teacher.