the start does not mean the first day or the first congress.
What does "never" mean to you?
When you are dealing with something 250years old, what phrase would you use in a nonspecific way to mean beginning or start. Is it day one? Maybe the first week or do you go broader because we are talking about3,000 months, 13,000 weeks, 91,000 days. So then how many weeks or months would be the official meaning of at the beginning or early on or in it’s infancy, or any number of different phrases that are nonspecific. In other words it is unknown or unimportant to the discussion.
Whether it’s 3 months, 30 months, or 300 months, to me is the first 10% of the timeline and thus it’s early on, the beginning, the start or infancy. The exact date, month,or week is not important or relevant to the assertion being made. That assertion being that the original federalism did not remain intact long enough to be proud of it. It faded almost immediately in terms of a 250 year timeline because men are imperfect and perfect words do not make perfect men.
You decide, and I will use that term that you deem perfect, especially for you.