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I think there was a lot of talk of instituting a monarchy and perhaps other forms of govt., but there was no actual blueprint per se.
Again, from my reading, the constitutional convention was basically a mess. They dissolved the articles of confederation and then were basically stuck without anything to implement in its place. Madison was really young (about 25 years old), so people didn't really pay attention to him. But then they realized he had the only plan, and they worked on it from there.
One should realize, as well, that they wanted to pass the constitution and bill of rights at the same time, but one of those compromises along the way was to enact the constitution and then use the amendment process to act on the bill of rights.
The articles of confederation were the antithesis of federal government. It's clear that the central govt., no matter how weak, needs certain powers - like to collect taxes and raise an army. Madison's plan was absolutely a federal arrangement with much more than the few necessary improvements on the articles to make the system work. The effect was to create an actual United States instead of a loose arrangement between nation states.
Getting back to states' rights...
Congress enacted the first official version of the U.S.C. in 1878, and it took a huge amount of work to gather all the legislation together in one place. As the sum of all statutory law in the USA, it clearly is the federal govt. enacting legislation that the states must abide by, and has been so since Congress first convened
Again, from my reading, the constitutional convention was basically a mess. They dissolved the articles of confederation and then were basically stuck without anything to implement in its place. Madison was really young (about 25 years old), so people didn't really pay attention to him. But then they realized he had the only plan, and they worked on it from there.
One should realize, as well, that they wanted to pass the constitution and bill of rights at the same time, but one of those compromises along the way was to enact the constitution and then use the amendment process to act on the bill of rights.
The articles of confederation were the antithesis of federal government. It's clear that the central govt., no matter how weak, needs certain powers - like to collect taxes and raise an army. Madison's plan was absolutely a federal arrangement with much more than the few necessary improvements on the articles to make the system work. The effect was to create an actual United States instead of a loose arrangement between nation states.
Getting back to states' rights...
Congress enacted the first official version of the U.S.C. in 1878, and it took a huge amount of work to gather all the legislation together in one place. As the sum of all statutory law in the USA, it clearly is the federal govt. enacting legislation that the states must abide by, and has been so since Congress first convened
