There were many groups demanding to protect, or reaffirm their rights along the path to drafting the Constitution, and the subsequent Revolutionary War that ensued. History has done much to call attention to the Northerners looking to abolish slavery, and put high tariffs on imports, and the Southerners looking to promote the slave trade, and reduce or eliminate tariffs on imports. The farmers, who were separated into the lowland, and backcountry factions, and a whole …
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…Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken, and notwithstanding all your wise Laws and Maxims we have it in our power not only to free our selves but to subdue our Master, and without violence throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet. - Charm by accepting, by submitting sway Yet we have our Humour most when we obey" Truer words were never spoken.