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Question: What do you think the motives of the men who framed the American Constitution were!?
I'm leaning toward the whole "federalist vs anti federalist" thing!. What do you think!? Www@QuestionHome@Com


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Their motives were pure and simple!. Their motives are in the preamble to the Constitution!. "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America!."

Their motives were to create and establish a better system of government!. The system of government under the Articles of Confederation was flawed!. That system left the federal government too weak!. The Constitution was written to strengthen the federal government!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

I think there motive was principly to preserve what they had, which is why the American revolution is refered to as a conservative revolution!. As long as the British government mosly left the colonials alone they made their own lives, and with the freedom they had made a good go of it, but then the British government began clamping down with regulation and taxation partly because they were strapped from all they spent fighting the Spanish and the French, etc!.
The founding fathers want to keep what the built!.
After independence the founding fathers created the Constitution to "form a more perfect union" between the states, what the relationship between the states would be, "for the common defense" and also to preserve each states autonomy from excessive centraized control!.
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