Question

Why were antifederalist writers so agitated about aristocracy, since there was no aristocracy in egalitarian america? or was there? what was meant by aristocracy, and why was it thought dangerous?.

Answer 1

Antifederalists were frustrated by the aristocracy because their power, influence, and name recognition caused many people to follow them.

Aristocracy is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class, the aristocrats.

Aristocracy was thought dangerous because they exerted an indirect political influence by dominating the social circles in which politicians at both the national and state level moved.

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