Blow all the smoke you wish. LOL.
GFY clown.
You don’t actually know the history so you make snide comments?
Foff.
"They started with a blank slate and created, with the help of God, the best document"
Wrong. The The Instrument of Government was the predecessor of the Constitution.
Note the focus on medieval Germany, Holy Roman Empire and the Normans, all of whom the Founders descended from. The existence of road tolls, river tolls, Danegeld etc is precisely what led to them in the Colonies. It was commonplace for Anglo-Saxon and European governments in general to finance themselves this way. Note the description of the Rhine tolls that I mentioned:
"By contrast, the castle of Pfalzgrafenstein Castle in the Rhine near Kaub was exclusively used to collect river tolls. Another well known toll site on the Rhine was the imperial palace of Kaiserswerth built in 1174, while the toll station at Stolzenfels Castle was also well positioned between Koblenz and Frankfurt".
THAT is where it all came from. And the restraint of trade was well known to everyone of European descent in the Colonies.