teamosil
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Really? Several of them argued for a stronger federal government? What percentage of them were dedicated to arguing for a stronger federal government?
All of them as far as I know. Some of them wanted stronger or less strong federal government relative to one another, but they all agreed it needed to be stronger than the federal government under the articles of confederation. That's who the founders are- the guys that were picked by the congress of the articles of the confederation to sit on a committee dedicated to figuring out what could be done to strengthen the federal government before it collapsed. They broke away from the old congress and decided to start from scratch, but that was their primary goal- to fix the problems with the federal government of the articles being too weak. Nobody would have argued that it wasn't too weak. It was bankrupt and completely ineffective at any of the goals it set out to achieve.