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James Madison was the architect of the Constitution, and in his determination to see us a
single nation, he abandoned the Articles of Confederation, against the wishes of the
common man in the Colonies. But he was an 18th century utopian, and as such, could see
only benefits & blessings from a powerful, singular, United States.

Our last great hope for freedom: states as independent entities joined in a loose federal
government that oversaw treaties, trade, and protection, was lost forever through the
utopian dreams of Madison, Hamilton, Jay and others.

As much as I hate the modern federal power grab — which is less a power grab than a power gift by the idiot voters who keep insisting on giving the FedGov more power — the Articles of Confederation were flat unworkable. The nation could never have remained unified.

I will concede however that we over-corrected.

Even then, the Constitution worked as designed for as long as we were moral and informed. Yes, Lincoln shredded the constitution, but it really took the modern Communist infiltration of American institutions at every level before the Constitution really became neglected. It worked superbly for the first 100 years of our nation’s history.

That’s not a bad start. Almost all Democratic forms of government start to collapse after about 200 years, because it takes that long for a generation to come along that has absolutely no clue about or interest in the reasons for creating the Democracy in the first place. It takes that long to collectively forget the original sacrifices, sufferings, and mindset of the people who created the Democracy, which is a Republic in our case.