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The Federalist Papers have a reputation for being beautifully written yet very wrong because they were literally composed as a propaganda campaign to smooth over problems with the Constitution. (I've always thought the writing was overhyped, particularly because nerds want them to be canonical texts.)

The Anti-Federalist Papers were written... not so well. Pretty standard for the period, really. But they were profoundly correct about the Constitution being bullshit and how bad things would flow from it.

But the AFP consistently denounce anarchy, so who's to say if they're good or bad? (Which is extremely funny to me because they were literally an autonomous, disorganized tendency expressing themselves through zines.)

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