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In forming a constitution for such a country, great care should be taken to limit and define its powers, adjust its parts, and guard against an abuse of authority. . . . The Constitution proposed to your acceptance is designed not for yourselves alone, but for generations yet unborn. The principles, therefore, upon which the social compact is founded, ought to have been clearly and precisely stated, and the most express and full declaration of rights to have been made. But on this subject there is almost an entire silence.

—The Anti-Federalist Papers, No. 2

Analyze how the concerns of the Anti-Federalists influenced the development of the Constitution. In your analysis, be sure to: • identify a concern of the Anti-Federalists stated in the excerpt • explain how the Constitution was changed to address that concern