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Yet if you read true American history, the founders did not want a strong central government, in other words what we have now. Hence the reason for the 10th amendment, the most ignored amendment ever.
Some founders didn't, others did. There is a reason the Articles of Confederation failed, they gave far too much power to the states and made the federal government pretty impotent.
But regardless of what the Founders might have wanted, we saw how destructive it was to give states more power, more rights than the individual people (also given rights alongside states in the 10th Amendment), hence why the majority (it does take quite a lot to change the US Constitution) choose to change the Constitution in a way that limited states' rights, states' power in favor of individual rights. That is much more important to me than states' rights, particularly since many of the most influential founding fathers were very much against pure democracies and/or tyrannies of the majorities.