Mark Levin on the Constitutional Convention: The Framers Would Have Never Voted for ‘the Government as It Exists Today’

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Levin, as a scholar of the Constitution, spoke of how the Founders emerged from the Revolutionary War knowing that a great intellectual and philosophical battle lay ahead. A gathering of warriors, philosophers, and lawyers who were deeply skeptical of centralized government were now tasked with creating one.

“They were very possessive of their state authority, as former colonies, and you can understand that,” he said. “They had these Articles of Confederation, and the Articles of Confederation were fine, except for the fact that the new country was going bankrupt with its war debt. The British, the French, other countries were killing us when it came to trade and so forth, because we had our states fighting with each other — fighting over navigable waters, where they shared rivers, and borders, and so forth, taxing the hell out of their own goods.”.....

http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2016/07/04/mark-levin-on-the-constitutional-convention-the-framers-would-have-never-voted-for-the-government-as-it-exists-today/

[geronl]

I think the founders would have been completely shocked by the end of the 19th century to tell the truth, and there were very few taxes in those days too.

[Timber Rattler]

I think the founders would have been completely shocked by the end of the 19th century to tell the truth, and there were very few taxes in those days too.

The Anti-federalists saw it coming, and tried warn the states away from it, but were outvoted.  Heaven help us if they had not been successful in demanding a Bill of Rights though.