I’ve always been of the view that we needed a strong central government not seen in the articles of confederation. Otherwise other countries would have conquered us one by one. Imagine what China would be doing to us right now if we decided to pursue the articles up until today. (Amusing the US would be a thing at that point.)
They just would have traded soft power for hard power anyways. I’ve always been the opinion that entropy comes to every civilization, and it never lasts forever. The US did the correct thing by creating a stronger central government in order to stave off that entropy. Was it a good thing? No. But it was the best of a bad situation. The articles of confederation made the US way to decentralized.
I’ve always been of the view that we needed a strong central government not seen in the articles of confederation. Otherwise other countries would have conquered us one by one. Imagine what China would be doing to us right now if we decided to pursue the articles up until today. (Amusing the US would be a thing at that point.)
China wouldn’t be where it is today if if weren’t for the US federal government.
They just would have traded soft power for hard power anyways. I’ve always been the opinion that entropy comes to every civilization, and it never lasts forever. The US did the correct thing by creating a stronger central government in order to stave off that entropy. Was it a good thing? No. But it was the best of a bad situation. The articles of confederation made the US way to decentralized.