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To: Jacquerie

“Clearly you are not familiar with the political evolution of the 1776-1787 period.
An excess of power in the people was leading to a new kind of tyranny, not the magisterial kind of Great Britain, not by traditional rulers, but by the people themselves - “what John Adams in 1776 had called a theoretical contradiction, a democratic despotism.”

The Creation of the American Republic, Gordon Wood 1969.”

I’m afraid I am at a loss to explain to suppose democracy that was said to exist in theses united States before 1787 and after 1783.

I do know that the contental was having trouble funding the army “obligations”(Thanks to Hamilton & elk who sabotaged the solutions that were made.). Confederate bureaucratic were having trouble getting respect from foreign leaders, and State officials were not fully complying with the treaty made by congress and congress was having trouble figuring out how to compel compliance.

But there was no democracy in any State anywhere. All the States had their own Republican Constitutions of civil government, and were following them in combination with their own people’s interest. Certant “federalist” like Hamlition were simply unhappy with the situation and the measures they had to take to carry out their jobs.

So they maneuvered and schemed for more power as politicians frequently do, what they got was the Constitutional convention & Federal Constitution of 1787.


19 posted on 07/11/2012 3:50:47 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Monorprise

Little is written and less is known of the 1776 -1787 era at FR because it was complicated and chaotic.

Your last three paragraphs reflect what passes for urban knowledge of the times at FR. I assure you that as it applies to this period, it is wrong.

I suggest you read a respectable text before spouting off about that which you do not know. Gordon Wood wrote one. Forrest McDonald wrote a couple.


20 posted on 07/11/2012 4:23:21 PM PDT by Jacquerie (No court can save us from ourselves.)
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