0 opposed to a federalist system of government (= one in which power is divided between a central government and several local ones):
1 someone who is opposed to a system of government in which power is divided between a single central government and several regional ones:
My own position was firmly anti-federalist.
The negative label of ' 'anti-federalist' ' was pinned to those who opposed ratification of the constitution during the debates of 1787-88, especially its provision for a more powerful national government.
I am not an anti-federalist but a realist.
This is a federalist dream and an anti-federalist nightmare and it has no reality.
We have chosen to vote against the report, partly for reasons of legal security and partly out of consideration for the anti-federalist principle.
Those who signed it cannot agree whether it is a federalist, centralising treaty, or a decentralising anti-federalist treaty.
There are also powerful anti-federalist forces.
The first parties were anti-federalist and federalist.
