I'm in that group. Patrick Henry smelled a rat, and it still stinks. Nevertheless the plausibility of the Constitution was the veneer of it's appeal to the rule of law. I'm a big fan of the rule of law,

It's too big. The principles weren't terrible, but it's too big. And it's not just some Americans it's a lot. There's a lot of chickenhawks amongst the trumpsters, but there's also a lot of.. some other

And it's a poor justification. It doesn't work, and there's no particular reason it would. If peaceful transfer of power is really desired, limit the power. In democracy power really doesn't change. The

Well let's be clear federalists were also rich, white, landowning, male slave owners. Slave owning was par. The debate was to give a centralized political class all the power, and the army to enforce it,

It's the fundamental problem with revolution, and why it doesn't and can't work. You had a bunch of guys that just killed a lot of people. Granted they (redcoats) mostly deserved killing, although they