Question

Highlight ideas in this passage that show why the Anti-Federalists objected to the Constitution.
If it were possible to consolidate the states, and preserve the features of a free government . . . [w]ealth, offices, and the benefits of government would collect in the center: and the extreme states . . . become much less important. . . . I still believe a complete federal bill of rights to be very practicable.
Which reasons explain why the Anti-Federalists objected to the Constitution? Choose three correct answers.
Responses

A bill of rights was included.
A bill of rights was included.

States would become more powerful.
States would become more powerful.

Power would be too centralized.
Power would be too centralized.

States would become less powerful.
States would become less powerful.

A bill of rights was not included

Answer 1

Correct answers:
- Power would be too centralized.
- States would become less powerful.
- A bill of rights was not included.

Why: The passage warns that wealth, offices, and benefits would "collect in the center" (centralization) making the "extreme states... much less important" (states losing power), and the speaker calls for "a complete federal bill of rights"—implying the Constitution lacked one and that absence was a key objection.