re: #87 HappyWarrior

Another historical pet peeve I have is to lump the Founders in as one group and I will also point out that some of the Founders thought a Constitution was too “intrusive.” And I’ll point out also for all their fears of “big government”, guys like Sam Adams and Patrick Henry were fine with it when they felt their privilege was threatened during things like Shays Rebellion and later the Whiskey Rebellion.

There were considerable disagreements among the Founders about the new government. The first attempt (the Confederation) was an abject failure, so they had come up with USA v. 2.0 (the Constitution).