What the Anti-Federalists Were For

Equality, Trust and Universalism in Europe, Canada and the United States: Implications for Health Care Policy

“…Just as it has played an important role in the construction of American political institutions (Storing, 1981) Because of the findings revealed here can be seen as contradictory to previous studies, further research should be conducted, particularly using future waves of World Values Survey data, to investigate the negative relationship found in this research between generalized trust and support for universalism.…”

Constitutional order in a federal republic

“…Martin Diamond (1961), for instance, argues that Hamilton, Madison, and Jay really wanted a national system of government and thought the constitution they were supporting created such a system, but spoke of a federal system of government because there was overwhelming opposition to a national government. While I cannot discount Diamond's argument as strongly as Ostrom apparently does, I should also note, as does , that the differences between those who supported ratification of the constitution and those who opposed it, and who wanted to maintain the confederacy instead, were really comparatively small, as Herbert Storing (1981) shows.…”

Populism in American Politics

“…If the elites are the enemy and these elites control the levers of federal government power, it only makes sense to American populists that the national government is looking to harm them; it is simply a tool being used by the elites to disempower the people. American populism regularly champions local control and keeping the power of the state as close to the people as possible (Kenyon 1955;Storing 1981;Kazin 1995;Cornell 1999;Siemers 2003). The people, after all, are virtuous; this is not true of the elites.…”