Dr. Michael Sanera, John Locke Foundation director of research and local government studies, and Dr. Troy Kickler, N.C. History Project director, discuss Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and the way those groups would approach today’s political debates. Sanera and Kickler offered these comments during an interview with Donna Martinez for Carolina Journal Radio (Program No. 443).
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Considering our distance from Europe, it would be more natural for these confederacies to apprehend danger from one another than from distant nations, and therefore that each of them should be more desirous to guard against the others by the aid of foreign alliances, than to guard against foreign dangers by alliances between themselves.
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