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Secret proceedings and debates of the convention assembled at Philadelphia, in the year 1787, Page 13 Luther Martin:
"One party, whose object and wish it was to abolish and annihilate all State governments, and to bring forward one general government, over this extensive continent, of monarchical nature, under certain restrictions and limitations. Those who openly avowed this sentiment were, it is true, but few; yet it is equally true, Sir, that there were a considerable number, who did not openly avow it, who were by myself, and many others of the convention, considered as being in reality favorers of that sentiment; and, acting upon those principles, covertly endeavoring to carry into effect what they well knew openly and avowedly could not be accomplished."
Patrick Henry, Monday, June 9, 1788:
"A number of characters, of the greatest eminence in this country, object to this government for its consolidating tendency. This is not imaginary. It is a formidable reality. If consolidation proves to be as mischievous to this country as it has been to other countries, what will the poor inhabitants of this country do? This government will operate like an ambuscade. It will destroy the state governments, and swallow the liberties of the people, without giving previous notice. If gentlemen are willing to run the hazard, let them run it; but I shall exculpate myself by my opposition and monitory warnings within these walls. But then comes paper money. We are at peace on this subject. Though this is a thing which that mighty federal Convention had no business with, yet I acknowledge that paper money would be the bane of this country. I detest it. Nothing can justify a people in resorting to it but extreme necessity. It is at rest, however, in this commonwealth. It is no longer solicited or advocated."
To the citizens of the United States by Thomas Paine
November 15, 1802:
"But a faction, acting in disguise, was rising in America; they had lost sight of first principles. They were beginning to contemplate government as a profitable monopoly, and the people as hereditary property."
A Farmer, March 7, 1788:
"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."
A voluntary association of independent people in independent states does not inspire factions to fight each other over the control of something checked by the people themselves, through their trial by jury system: rule of law. A subsidized slave business, a fraudulent form of government, a corporate nation state with absolute power to extract whatever is desired from anyone who can produce anything worth taking, is an obvious prize for factions. Absolute power, arbitrary power, is the prize sought after by factions. Factions operating despotic governments include: aristocrats (Adams), banking frauds (Alexander Hamilton), warmongers (George Washington), all those profiting from the slave trade, and other sorted criminal gangs. Factions will be inspired to fight for control of arbitrary power, when arbitrary power is created and in place, and factions will use any means necessary to achieve their goal.
Actual history is useful for voluntary mutual defense. False history is useful for one faction gaining power over their targeted victims: under the color of law.