That would be due to mistaking a bunch of radicals for a bunch of liberals.
They'd just recently gotten rid of one centralized government, why anyone would think that they'd want to replace it with another centralized government escapes me.
Edited to add: This was a group of men who'd just won a revolution not that long before. People constantly go on about our "patriotic Founders" — failing to realize the Founders were a group of men desperate enough to commit High Treason and lucky enough to succede.
I quote a Brit classmate's response to "What do you British think of George Washington?" [from, I note, a substitute teacher who was both a bigot and a moron]:
"Colonel Washington? The well-known traitor to Crown and Country?" delivered in a deliberate public-school drawl.
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They'd just recently gotten rid of one centralized government, why anyone would think that they'd want to replace it with another centralized government escapes me.
Edited to add: This was a group of men who'd just won a revolution not that long before. People constantly go on about our "patriotic Founders" — failing to realize the Founders were a group of men desperate enough to commit High Treason and lucky enough to succede.
I quote a Brit classmate's response to "What do you British think of George Washington?" [from, I note, a substitute teacher who was both a bigot and a moron]:
"Colonel Washington? The well-known traitor to Crown and Country?" delivered in a deliberate public-school drawl.