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OK, I've gotta chime in: I'd say 1791 when the Articles of Confederation were replaced by the more powerfully centralized Constitution.
The burning ember of centralized Power within the Constitution is how the tiny government of early America became the vast tyranny we suffer under today.
The most American of historical quotes: "That government is best, which governs not at all." ~ Henry David Thoreau, in Civil Disobedience