Antifederalism is a political philosophy that opposes the concept of federalism, which defends that the authority of the State must be equal or superior, but never having more power than the sub-national states.
In this case Antifederalism refers to the movement that opposed a strong government of the United States and later opposed the Constitution of the United States of 1787. The old constitution called Articles of Confederation, gave the states more authority against the central government. Directed by Patrick Henry of Virginia, they opposed, among other things, the novel figure of the president they feared could become a monarchy.
