After the colonists seceded from the British government, why did they feel the need to create another government?
Well, they simply believed in goverment, but they also believed that if their new government got too powerful, then they could have another revolution. I'm using the Declaration of Independence as my logic.
Thomas Jefferson had no idea how powerful governments can get; if he did, then he probably would've founded the U.S. as a stateless society.
I'm an anarcho-capitalist, but I'm actually indifferent to that and the Articles of Confederation with some slight modifications.
Slave owners and bankers wanted it.
haha. I have no evidence of that, but I bet those are the poeple who most supported a government; the Hamilton/Jefferson dichotomy
In States a fresh law is looked upon as a remedy for evil. Instead of themselves altering what is bad, people begin by demanding a law to alter it. ... In short, a law everywhere and for everything!
~Peter Kropotkin
All american people signed social contract and so the Government arose.
(english is not my native language, sorry for grammar.)
"All american people signed social contract"
Only the "founding fathers" signed the piece of paper stating they could tax the colonists.....
the colonists didn't sign that.
I said "social" for a reason! >:(
@limitgov, yeah you didn't know that? If a group of people who are claimed by most living there to have the ability to rule over them sign a contract, then they get the ability to rule over you whether or not you don't like it.
Because they could.
I'm curious...did the colonists...after just escaping and fighting off a huge government....did they want to form a government at all?
Or go on living as free men?
Someone said slaveholders wanted to form a government...you seemed to be sarcastic...but that makes perfect sense. Can't really keep a slave and get him returned if he runs away if they're isn't a government to support you.
I wish there was a book on this. Give the reasons why colonists who didn't want to form a new government...and talk about their reasons.
Right after the American revolution....weren't the states still governments? Was each state government still in tact?
Perhaps they already had governments....they just wanted to form a federal government....
one to rule them all....
You should read some Paine. And the Federalist Papers. It would give you a good insight.
A lot weren't anti-state per se, more anti nation-state.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTduy7Qkvk8
It's funny because I finished No Treason today.
Freedom has always been the only route to progress.