linguistic:paraphrasing
Main beliefs

They also believed that a large central government would not serve the interests of small towns and rural areas, as opposed to the urban interests that most Federalist delegates aligned with. Generally, Anti-Federalists were more likely to be small farmers than lawyers and merchants and came from rural areas rather than the urban areas many federalists represented. In their journey to protect the interests of rural areas and farmers, the Anti-Federalists believed: