I just read the speech by Patrick Henry in opposition to the Constitution you referred to. Maybe I'm too stupid to understand but it appeared he was concerned about the treaties in place with our allies and that there was little to no reason to change the form of government. I see the concern about the president making himself a king and the federal government taking power from the states and therefore the people... Am I reading this correctly?
Yes...but that was only a small part of his concern. His main concern was that our Constitution was basically going to give control of the states to an rich aristocracy...a rich ruling class, but that in his words it would be "masked." There would be the appearance of freedom, but in reality the underlying Federalism within the language of the Constitution would lead to tyranny and top down control. I would listen to and read that Anti-Federalist papers...Patrick Henry has much more to say in various parts of that collection of documents. He actually wrote most of the Anti-Federalist Papers...
I just read the speech by Patrick Henry in opposition to the Constitution you referred to. Maybe I'm too stupid to understand but it appeared he was concerned about the treaties in place with our allies and that there was little to no reason to change the form of government. I see the concern about the president making himself a king and the federal government taking power from the states and therefore the people... Am I reading this correctly?
Yes...but that was only a small part of his concern. His main concern was that our Constitution was basically going to give control of the states to an rich aristocracy...a rich ruling class, but that in his words it would be "masked." There would be the appearance of freedom, but in reality the underlying Federalism within the language of the Constitution would lead to tyranny and top down control. I would listen to and read that Anti-Federalist papers...Patrick Henry has much more to say in various parts of that collection of documents. He actually wrote most of the Anti-Federalist Papers...
Thank you for the clarification. I am currently diving into the papers, very interesting as you said.