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The statement which I called drivel was: "The Founding Fathers were deeply paranoid of an overbearing government and an very powerful political class." The Founders were not a homogenous group of people, and the dominant faction, the Federalists, looked quite admiringly at the British Parliament.

> Federalism was a core part of the "experiment"

I didn't say Federalism wasn't a part of the experiment of the Founding. I'm addressing your historical revisionism about why the Federal system exists. It has more to do with political expediency in a climate where the states held all the cards than any deeply held belief that the Federal government should be as strong as possible.

Remember, the Framers didn't have a mandate to create a new Constitution, because the state legislatures were worried what that would do to their power. They created the Constitution they thought they could get away with.



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