Why did Anti-Federalists favor a bill of rights? It would split power equally between the president and Congress. It would put goverment in the hands of individual states. It would give the government more power to make laws. It would protect individual citizens’ freedoms.

Anti-Federalists were in favor of the Bill of Rights because it would protect individual citizens' freedoms.

Explanation:

The Anti-Federalists were a political group led by Patrick Henry that, in the 1780s, began to fervently oppose the sanction of the Constitution on the grounds that it would impose a tyrannical government on the United States.

This belief came mainly from the fear that many settlers had towards one-person governments (such as the presidentialism that the Constitution intended to impose), because they believed that it could become a tyranny. This was based on the experiences that the colonists had with King George and the British rule in America, where the Thirteen Colonies had seen their rights violated against the absolutism that came from the British Isles.

Therefore, they demanded as a requirement for the approval of the Constitution the signing of a document that guaranteed the individual rights that had been the main independence motive (freedom and equality), in order to have a defense in case the ruling power would become authoritarian. Thus, the Bill of Rights was incorporated into the Constitution.

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