The Anti-Federalist: Writings by the Opponents of the Constitution

Herbert J. Storing's Complete Anti-Federalist, hailed as "a civic event of enduring importance" (Leonard W. Levy, New York Times Book Review), indisputably established the importance of the Anti-Federalists' writings for our understanding of the Constitution. As Storing wrote in his introduction, "If the foundation of the American polity was laid by the Federalists, the Anti-Federalist reservations echo through American history; and it is in the dialogue, not merely in the Federalist victory, that the country's principles are to be discovered."

This one-volume edition presents the essence of the other side of that crucial dialogue. It can be read as a genuine counterpart to the Federalist Papers; as an original source companion to Storing's brilliant essay What the Anti-Federalists Were For (volume I of The Complete Anti-Federalist, available as a separate paperback); or as a guide to exploring the full range of Anti-Federalist writing. The Anti-Federalist makes a fundamental source of our political heritage accessible to everyone.

• The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States (Modern Library Classics)
• The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics)
• Democracy in America
• What the Anti-Federalists Were For: The Political Thought of the Opponents of the Constitution
• The Portable Thomas Jefferson (Portable Library)
• Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787
• Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America (LOA #147): A new translation by Arthur Goldhammer (Library of America)
• A Letter Concerning Toleration (Hackett Classics)
• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
• A Jonathan Edwards Reader (Yale Nota Bene)