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Up next, another installment of our series about us, the Story of America series,

with Hillsdale College Professor and author of the

fantastic book, Land of Hope, Dr. Bill McLeay. Opponents of the Constitution called anti-federalists

had serious concerns. And despite their loss in stopping the Constitution, those concerns

had to be heard. Let's get into the story.

Here's Bill McLeigh.

Now, the anti-fedists, they were defeated in the big game of stopping the Constitution,

but they were not entirely defeated.

They raised really important issues.

You read them now, and they're very, read Brutus now, read them, many of them are well worth reading now in the same way the Federalist papers are because they foresaw problems that we have had to face.

Some of the problems of centralized government are problems we now face.

And they were concerned about the protection of rights, of fundamental rights as Englishmen,

since nothing is said about them other than a brief illusion here or there.

There's no spelling out of rights. There's no undergirding of rights.

There's no guaranteeing of rights. So one of the compromises that was struck in the ratification

was that there would be 10 amendments to the Constitution. Eventually they were,, they whittled it down to ten,

which we call the Bill of Rights and quite rightly see as part of the original Constitution,

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