The Brion McClanahan Show Episode 240: Enough With Hamilton

AmConMag: The Federalists’ Revenge by Joseph R. Stromberg
America’s Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited, Sheldon Richman, Griffin & Lash, 135 pages

Nomocracy in Politics: “Weighing Publius’s Constitutional Morality,” By H. Lee Cheek

Kendall or Calhoun?

The Constitution vs. Calhoun: Why Harry Jaffa Is Still Wrong About Willmoore Kendall by Daniel McCarthy

"Kendall was, in American constitutional terms, a “nationalist” rather than an advocate of states’ rights."

AmConMag veering towards Hamiltonian Nationalism?

I get that sort of feeling from recent posts responding to SCOTUS's ruling on the individual mandate.

Died on the 4th of July By STEPHEN B TIPPINS JR
Fisher Ames, Founding Father and arch-foe of democracy

Gary L. Gregg II and Bill Kauffman discuss whether the Anti-Federalists were right

Debating the Constitution: Were the Anti-Federalists Right?

As the past two feature articles on First Principles have focused on the Constitution of the United States, perhaps it is now worthwhile to pursue an answer to the question: were the Anti-Federalists right to oppose the Constitution?

Gary Gregg and Bill Kauffman debated this question last year at the University of Colorado.

Regarding the signing of the Constitution, Gregg states: “There are particular times, there are particular moments in world history when great things, and good things are possible. This was one of those moments. I submit to you that the Anti-Federalists would have doomed our nation to lope along for decades if they would have rejected the Constitution. For this summer of 1787 may well have been the only real chance we had for the only kind of . . . conservative and reformed constitutionalism that we so needed.”

Kauffman responds by defending the Anti-Federalists and their contributions, noting that they “stood for decentralism, local solutions, anti-militarism, and a deep suspicion of far-off governments. And they stood on what they stood for, local attachments, local knowledge.”

To see these statements fleshed out, click here.

(via the Western Confucian)