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Luther Martin’s Warning: Executive Power, Unequal Representation, and the Illusion of Impeachment

Luther Martin’s Warning: Executive Power, Unequal Representation, and the Illusion of Impeachment

by Michael Boldin | Mar 9, 2025 | AntiFederalists, Constitution, Luther Martin

Luther Martin feared that the Constitution was not a blueprint for liberty, but rather a framework for centralized control that threatened state sovereignty. He hammered this point home in Genuine Information, criticizing unequal representation in Congress, condemning...
Federal Farmer: Senate Will be “Source of the Greatest Evils”

Federal Farmer: Senate Will be “Source of the Greatest Evils”

by TJ Martinell | Jan 19, 2023 | Congress, Senate

While the anti-federalist Federal Farmer was critical of the proposed House of Representatives for having too few members, he was even more harsh toward the proposed Senate. Ironically, he wrote in his tenth letter dated January 12, 1788, that the Senate “as an...
Federal Farmer: More Warnings on Insufficient Representation

Federal Farmer: More Warnings on Insufficient Representation

by TJ Martinell | Jan 4, 2023 | Federal Farmer

In his series of essays, the Anti-federalist Federal Farmer warned repeatedly that the proposed Constitution provided for too little representation in Congress.  Previously, he argued that a tendency toward aristocracy would prevent adequate representation, and that...
Federal Farmer: Representation Isn’t Sufficient

Federal Farmer: Representation Isn’t Sufficient

by TJ Martinell | Dec 29, 2022 | AntiFederalists, Federal Farmer, Ratification Debates

When it was ratified, the U.S. Constitution set a cap on the number of representatives at no more than one per 30,000 persons. In his seventh letter dated Dec. 31, 1787, the Federal Farmer argues that this constituted too few representatives to accurately reflect the...
Federal Farmer: Constitution creates “a strong tendency to aristocracy”

Federal Farmer: Constitution creates “a strong tendency to aristocracy”

by TJ Martinell | Dec 9, 2022 | Federal Farmer, Ratification Debates

In his third letter dated Oct. 10, 1787, the anti-federalist writer Federal Farmer wrote skeptically of the proposed new federal government for fear it would bring about a “tendency toward aristocracy,” similar to those which could be found in European nations. ...
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