Anti-federalists opposed Alexander Hamilton's plan because they felt it threatened their individual freedoms.
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They did not want to bail the northerners out.
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Thomas Jefferson
For one, they both hated each other, so that complicated things. But also, Jefferson was an anti-federalist, he believed that the powers of the federal government were limited to what explicitly stated in the constitution, and the Bank, which would give the federal government significant power over the economy, was a big no-no.