Question

Those who opposed giving the federal government more power than the states were known as what? federalists anti-federalists statists constitutionalists

Answer 1

Those who opposed giving the federal government more power than the states were known as the "Anti-Federalists", since they did not want to ratify the Constitution, which would have done this. 

Answer 2

Answer:

Those who opposed giving the Federal Government more power than the states were known as Anti-Federalists.

Explanation:

Anti-federalism was a political movement in the United States that advocated the country's confederal structure and against the 1787 Constitution. The previous constitutional document, known as the Confederation Articles, provided states with more autonomy. Anti-federalists believed that after the adoption of the Constitution and the approval of a centralized government, state rights and individual rights would be violated, and the president would receive power comparable to the tyrannical power of the British king before the Revolutionary War.