The Anti-Federalists were right.

One of the reasons I do this podcast and these occasional dispatches is that my thoughts don't die with me when I assume room temperature. I just so happen to have found a memory-holed audio file of the debate and thought I would share.

I was contacted by the folks at Freedom Fest in 2010 because they could find no one to debate the Constitution. They reached out to me because I have been a rather obscure but known Constitutional skeptic on the 'net. I published my jeremiad against the Constitution in September 2009 at LewRockwell shortly before my excommunication from Mr. Rockwell's site.

His site and his rules and he still commands my greatest respect.

I was one of the few people in America I suspect to have read all the Anti-Federalist Papers in Herbert Storing's collection and the three volumes of The Emerging Nation: a Documentary History of the Foreign Relations of the United States Under the Articles of the Confederation by Mary A. Giunta et al.

I accepted the invitation and Dr. Daniel Walker Howe took up the defense of the Constitution against my defense of the Articles of Confederation.