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: --
Some anti-federalists continued to fight the issue after the constitution had been ratified, and threatened the entire nation with another constitutional convention.
It was inevitable that the occasion should be seized by the anti-federalists to raise the federalist bogy.
The first parties were anti-federalist and federalist.
There are also powerful anti-federalist forces.
Those who signed it cannot agree whether it is a federalist, centralising treaty, or a decentralising anti-federalist treaty.
We have chosen to vote against the report, partly for reasons of legal security and partly out of consideration for the anti-federalist principle.
This is a federalist dream and an anti-federalist nightmare and it has no reality.
I am not an anti-federalist but a realist.
