<span>The United States wasn't a country in 1609. Maybe it has to do with the suppressed colonies vs. a new, unified country with a stable government.</span>
Many of the concerns raised by anti-federalists were about giving the government too much centralized power, as well as its lack of protections of the rights of citizens (which were laid out in the Bill of Rights and subsequent amendments)
The controversial work of the National Recovery Administration.
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