Which people were the Anti-Federalists? those who insisted that no compromises be made during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 those who worried that smaller states would refuse to join the union if they were not granted greater representation in both houses of Congress those who feared that the Constitution would create an overly strong central government that would strip the states of their individual powers and rights those who believed that the president of the United States should be chosen by the members of Congress, not the people