Their reasoning was they were utterly against any authoritarian leadership. Having felt and seen the ineffectiveness of such a design in Europe. Thomas Jefferson among many feared such power saying “If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.” This gives use insight into the mind of a man who studied the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Drawing great inspiration from the social contract. Which in essence is a mutual obligation between a government, and its people to work with each other for the common good of the whole. -----They wanted a government for the people and by the people. Many things were in play at this point in the country one of the front running issues was a diversity of
Their reasoning was they were utterly against any authoritarian leadership. Having felt and seen the ineffectiveness of such a design in Europe. Thomas Jefferson among many feared such power saying “If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.” This gives use insight into the mind of a man who studied the philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Drawing great inspiration from the social contract. Which in essence is a mutual obligation between a government, and its people to work with each other for the common good of the whole. -----They wanted a government for the people and by the people. Many things were in play at this point in the country one of the front running issues was a diversity of