Quote Originally Posted by OrygunBison View Post
Right, you just made my point. There was an initial desire for a confederacy and it failed miserably so when they were drafting the Constitution, they knew that they needed some central controls to make it actually work, then they placed state freedoms around it.

FWIW - I might have some nuances a bit sideways. This is all coming from my Problems of Democracy class in high school in the 80's plus random reading since. Plus I hear what I want to hear at times...
Ok, well I'm certainly not defending the confederacy. I just thought you were saying they wanted a strong federal government but they decided to give a few rights to the states....actually, I'm pretty sure that's almost exactly what you said