The problem with the Articles of Confederation that the delegates were sent there to deal with were the debasing of the currency and interstate trade restrictions. (They were not sent there initially to create a whole new Constitution.) Those things could have been dealt with without creating a federal government that has grown out of control. In fact, that whole protecting us against a debased currency and insisting on gold and silver coinage is working great isn't it? Score one for the Anti-Federalist. It took 130 years to get out of control. That is not a bad record. The Fedral Reserve Bank was not created until 1913.
The Articles of Confederation were spinning out of control in 10 years. Score 0 for the anti-Federalists.
America has a great standard of living in spite of our big, meddlesome, nanny state, not because of it. How much more prosperous would we be if we only paid a couple of percent in taxes and were free from burdensome federal regulation?
Again, this is a recent phenonimon. Moreover, we are also wealthy because the country grew, had resources, could protect itself, and followed Hamilton's economic advice.
And since Switzerland hasn't been attacked yet, maybe they should launch one of those preemptive wars.
Huh?
The Constitution had fallen apart by four scour and seven years. The time when a crazed, war mongering, blood thirsty, Constitution shredding dictator decided to invade a Country that had peacefully and lawfully seceded.
What in the Constitution prohibits secession? Nothing. Therefore it is Constitutional. Although I agree that a section specifically authorizing secession, while unnecessary, should have been included in the Constitution to erase any doubt. That it wasn't was one more reason to stick with the AoC.
Hamilton favored an unconstitutional Central Bank. While he was a decent and well intentioned man, we should have ignored his merchantilistic economic advice.