1. Important transactions such as approving a new scheme of government required "cool deliberation," yet the Constitution was being "hurried on . . . very furiously" in some states. What could account for "the mad zeal of some to precipitate a blind adoption of the measures of the late federal convention, without giving opportunity for better information to those who;The Constitution's critics also wondered what all the rush was about. It was "very reprehensible
2. According to the Antifederalist "Centinel," "[O]ur situation is represented to be so critically dreadful, that, however reprehensible and exceptionable the proposed plan of government may be, there is no alternative, between the adoption of it and absolute ruin;Antifederalists charged that Federalists exaggerated when they warned that the nation faced a dire emergency that necessitated quick ratification