In October 1787, only a month after the Constitutional Convention ended its deliberations and sent the finished Constitution to the states for ratification, Robert Yates, a judge from upstate New York, penned a essay arguing against ratifying the Constitution. Yates worried the proposed constitution would create a government unaccountable to the people and that those in power would use it for the "purposes of gratifying their own interest and ambition." "It is scarcely possible," Yates wrote, "in a very large republic, to call them to account for their misconduct, or to prevent their abuse of power."
- Trevor Burris, writing at thefederalist.com
http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/07/anti-federalists-predicted-todays-political-morass-can-help-us-get/