Reddit reviews The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates (Signet Classics)
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While I agree with your sentiment that, for their day, the Founding Fathers of the United States were remarkable people they also had their problems. Nearly every problem that citizens of the United States are facing today were predicted in some fashion by other founding fathers. If you really want to understand the debate, at the time, you have to read the following two books.
If you kept an open mind and read those books you will probably find yourself much more suspicious of government than you might otherwise expect. The first book of this second list was written in the 19^th century and makes very clear the problems with the US Constitution. The last two are modern extensions of thought to Spooners' writings.
not really a book, just a catch-all to refer to writing in opposition to the ratification of the constitution. and there's a LOT of them. but if one is interested, i think the edition edited by ralph ketchum is convenient for the novice and has the added bonus of excerpts from madison's notes from the constitutional convention.
You can read all about it in James Madison's meticulous notes.
There is also a fair amount about that particular arguement in this book