Ic suggest a new coalition movement, in some ways akin to the Tea Party, Occupy, or the various citizens' clubs of the first French republican society. A political club, open to all, yet with a semi-centralised aßortment of 'primary offices' in charge of aiding and partially administrating the graß-roots clubs nearest to them.
As the name implies, the Anti-Federalist Society for Freehed would be an organisation determined to stand against centralised, iron-fisted government, or perhaps any government at all (up to the Society, really). The Society shall no longer legitimise power antagonistic to the citizenry's will, specifically by condemnation of any act which in any manner strengthens the federal state, its fifty provincial states, or its power over foreign states. Our fait accompli resides in the Society's opposition to any bill or reform that relies on the corrupt, tyrannous government to accomplish it. Only legislation that is directly by, of, and for the people can the Society find acceptable to support.
Let this Society serve as the citizenry's declaration of independence from distant governance, in the name community, from rule through ivory tower politic, in the name of rule by polite, kind society, from tyranny, for liberty,
Now that Ic have delivered the suggestion in full, and moving on to an aßumption of agreement, Ic shall propose some ideas for the new Society. To build our ranks in the shortest of time, we must engage in combat-politic, that is to say, attack the politicians and parties within the system from without. Our protestations ought to always be from the vantage of a strengthening corrupt, practically alien government. Wars allow the government to arm itself, thereby posing a serious risk to the voice of the citizenry, by negating the government's need to heed us at all. Welfare enslaves poor citizens to the whims of political bureaucrats, and to any tyranny they might perpetrate. Ways to buffer our policy on both fronts is to organise national citizen militias for the former and Society-operated soup kitchens, clinics (including home doctor services), homeleß shelters, schools, actual housing, and post-services. Funding may be more of a problem, but sales through the publishing of both ald and new Anti-Federalist works should be a good start. Finally, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, and Thomas Paine (at the least) should be idolised as the Society's pantheon (à la the French republican Panthéon), and four flags ought to be used by the Society: the actual flag of the Society, the thirteen stars and stars, the Appeal to Heaven (potentially a copy which excludes the words), and the national 'pine tree' flag of New England.
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