Quote from achilles28:
That's what I said, dipshit.
No, you said that the anti-federalists opposed ratification of the
first draft of the Constitution because of the Bill of Rights.
The reality is that they opposed ratification of the
final version of the Constitution because they were opposed to what it proposed; a stronger central government.
They were also opposed to it's definition of the federal judicial system. In the end, the subsequent Bill of Rights was a
compromise that was reached in order to get the Constitution ratified.
You also said that it was obvious to anyone that the Constitution was designed to thwart a Tyranny of the Minority, and that is also incorrect.
As I previously mentioned, the Constitution was actually the country's
second constitution. It's why they wrote in it "in order to effect a more perfect union."
They recognized that the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation, was not going to keep the country glued together because it had already started to fracture only 10 years into its existence.
Also, it was the anti-federalists who opposed a tyranny of the elite (which your incorrectly applied as something the federalists feared).
In reality, what the federalists feared was a tyranny of the majority, which is why we have a representative democracy at the federal level.
However, they let the states have the decision to implement a direct democracy within their respective constitutions.