[Just another Joe]

In reality, the states here had created a state that was soverign over its lands it didn't want to cede its power over to England and its King. These same states then endeavored to cut off relations with the King and used incidents like that to force a show down.

What reality do you live in? I want to make sure that I never enter that reality.

1) It didn't make any sense.

2) Do you really think that all it was was a power grab?
If so I can see where you get your thoughts.

This is what your thinking leads to.
"Everything in the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state."
"After a few years of comparative non-intervention, and some liberalization, the government moves towards a highly interventionist policy, and statist pronouncements increasingly harping on the "corporate state." All traces of conservatism are lost, save only for the insistence that actual ownership of businesses by the state be avoided."

[VRWC_minion]

Do you really think that all it was was a power grab?

Of course it was. All wars are.

"Everything in the state, nothing against the state, nothing outside the state."

Which is balanced by elections and divisions of power.