So overwhelming was the popular feeling against a strong National Government that, if the Anti-Constitutionalists had concentrated their attack upon this secret purpose of the leading Constitutionalists to make it such by easy stages, it is more than probable that the Constitution would have been defeated.
Beveridge reflects on the strong public opposition to a powerful National Government during the ratification debates.
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