[central_va]

Having witnessed the threat of individual states allying with European monarchies such as Spain or re-allying with Great Britain, our Framers wisely determined that only a collection of republics were suitable members under the new...

Fake history.

[Jacquerie]

Here's one example.

Gunning Bedford, former Delaware Attorney General, and state senator, threatened the Federal Convention of 1787 if small states were not granted equal suffrage in the US Senate.

He blurted out, "The little States are willing to observe their engagements, but will meet the large ones on no ground but that of the Confederation. We have been told with a dictatorial air that this is the last moment for a fair trial in favor of a good Governmt. It will be the last indeed if the propositions reported from the Committee go forth to the people. He was under no apprehensions."

"The Large States dare not dissolve the Confederation. If they do the small ones will find some foreign ally of more honor and good faith, who will take them by the hand and do them justice."

He regained control of himself and said, "he did not mean by this to intimidate or alarm." But the meaning was clear.