As soon as the British colonists in America had broken the chains of their "slavery," thrown off "tyranny" (of taxation without representation lol), freed their minds of the affliction of paranoia; as soon as they were on their own and had to construct their new governments they abruptly abandoned their pre-Revolutionary arguments and adopted the arguments that the British Crown had used against them. Gone was conspiratorial thinking; Gone was the fear of concentrated power; Gone was the danger of "corruption"; Gone was the primacy of "virtue" in electors and electorate alike:
For in the 1780's...the central task was reversed. Now the goal...was the creation, not the destruction, of national power--the construction of...a central national power that involved...potentially at least, the regulation of vital aspects of everyday life by a government dominant over all...
...the central issue of 1787-88 was...diametrically opposite to the goals of the pre-Revolutionary years.
Not rhetoric, huh Professor Bailyn? No, no! They meant it all! Pshaw. It was the most cynical use of rhetoric. It was all lies. The new country was created on a bedrock of cynical lies.
For in the 1780's...the central task was reversed. Now the goal...was the creation, not the destruction, of national power--the construction of...a central national power that involved...potentially at least, the regulation of vital aspects of everyday life by a government dominant over all...
...the central issue of 1787-88 was...diametrically opposite to the goals of the pre-Revolutionary years.
Not rhetoric, huh Professor Bailyn? No, no! They meant it all! Pshaw. It was the most cynical use of rhetoric. It was all lies. The new country was created on a bedrock of cynical lies.
