Anti-Federalism: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

A Standing Army in Time of Peace

•2/3 of both Houses:

–NY, RHL

–Convention minority
in VA, NC, MD

•3/4 of both Houses: NH

•RI, PA: no standing army.

Many states recommended amendments limiting or prohibiting Congress from having a Standing Army
in Time of Peace:


	Rutland: Ordeal: p. 47

	The Federalist-inclined but fair-minded Providence newspaper printed a prayer of deliverance:

	“ O Lord have mercy upon us . . . And deliver us, we pray they, from STANDING ARMIES, and CINCINNATI OFFICERS.”

	Oswald’s newspaper printed what appeared to be damaging answers to the query, Who is to profit from Constitutional ratification?

	“The military profession will then be respectable, and the Floridas may be conquered in a campaign -- The spoils of the West-Indies and South America may enrich the next generation of Cincinnati.”