Historically Wrong, and Right
Crossroads for Liberty: Recovering the Anti-Federalist Values of America’s First Constitution, by William J. Watkins, Jr, Oakland, California: Independent Institute, 2016, 336 pages, hardcover.
The first American constitution was an amazing and amazingly powerful pact that held together the disparate former colonies in a “firm league of friendship” that was strong enough to keep the states united in their war to restore their liberty and flexible enough to preserve the power of the states to govern themselves without the need for a consolidated national government, one like they had just driven from their shores.
This isn’t quite the description of the Articles of Confederation published in high-school history textbooks or in the innumerable volumes of popular Founding Fathers biographies that regularly top best-seller lists and inspire Broadway blockbusters.
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