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"Whether national government will be productive of internal peace, is too uncertain to admit of decided opinion. I only hazard a conjecture when I say, that our state disputes, in a confederacy, would be disputes of levity and passion, which would subside before injury. The people being free, government having no right to them, but they to government, they would separate and divide as interest or inclination prompted - as they do at this day, and always have done, in Switzerland. In a national government, unless cautiously and fortunately administered, the disputes will be the deep-rooted differences of interest, where part of the empire must be injured by the operation of general law; and then should the sword of government be once drawn (which Heaven avert) I fear it will not be sheathed, until we have waded through that series of desolation, which France, Spain, and the other great kingdoms of the world have suffered, in order to bring so many separate States into uniformity, of government and law; in which event the legislative power can only be entrusted to one man (as it is with them) who can have no local attachments, partial interests, or private views to gratify."
New Constitution Creates A National Government; Will Not Abate Foreign Influence; Dangers Of Civil War And Despotism, March 7, 1788
Neil Wampler:
"...the feverish political divide of today has strong parallels with our country in the 1860s."
That divide was predicted. That divide is the same divide in principle as the one faced by every slave wishing to run away from slavery, or fight for freedom, peacefully if possible, and if the slave masters insist, and there is no place to run, then defensive fighting on the foundation of moral principle is forced by the aggressors.
Why stop looking back once the predictable Civil War is found? What about Shays's Rebellion?
When the criminals took over Massachusetts after the British gave up their aggressive war for profit, that same divide seen now was afoot then, and even then the criminals had to take-over the trial by jury process.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QSwmvMr9cY