[justshutupandtakeit]

Most of the Anti-federalists were not on the front lines of the Revolutionary War. It was the shared misery and deprivation in the Continental army which formed the core experience of those who later became federalist. First hand experience with trying to maintain an army showed them that the Articles were worthless as a governmental basis.

Most of those paralyzed with hysterical fantasies about a permanent military were precisely those who did not serve in the army. For the armchair soldiers the Articles were fine. Those whose lives were on the line had a much different view.

[Huck]

You know, maybe it's just me, but South Carolina and Georgia leadership seem not to have had their hearts in the Union very much from the start. I mean, the more I read, the more it looks like they seized any and every opportunity to threaten dissolving their ties. Maybe I am wrong. But I think there were certain states who went along with it half-heartedly, but really resented sharing power with the other states.