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So now you whine about saving Europe twice. You are a nutThey also didn't want the USA to get involved in European wars or colonialism. The Founders were merchants and businessmen, who had seen European wars over religion or territory drain the public coffers, destroy nations and kill thousands. The Founders wanted a peaceful nation, free of religious interference in government, where a man rose or fell on his abilities and his worth ethic, not by virtue of the station of his birth.
The Foundes wrote a constitution for a small, coastal, agrarian nation with a population of fewer than 5 million people.
They gave more power to the states because weather conditions and growing conditions varied so markedly from the Northern States to the Southetn States that each state needed the ability to tailor their laws to their state’s climate and economic realities.
The population in general, grew up, lived and died within a 50 miles radius of where they were born.
They didn’t envision a sprawling coast to coast nation with a mobile population of 300 million people.
But they did envision the need for changes to the original constitution, something that modern Americans have ceased doing.