The fact that the people at large looked upon the proposed National Government as something foreign, something akin to the British rule which had been overthrown, stares the student in the face wherever he turns among the records of the Constitutional period.
Beveridge highlights the public perception of the proposed National Government as foreign and reminiscent of British rule.
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The existing American system was a very masterpiece of weakness.
The Virginians, on their part, found the giving of new notes a convenient way of canceling old obligations and thus piled up mountains of debt which they found hard to remove.
The Constitution's enemies, thus far out-pointed by its perfectly trained and harmonious supporters, could delay no longer.
History, reason, evidence, march through these pages like infantry, cavalry, and artillery going to battle.
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