Miracle at Philadelphia

During the convention the question of whether a man will confide in a government a thousand miles distant was brought up. It was a problem that was not familiar to the men at the convention. Many of the European countries were fairly small compared to the size of the United States. As they came up with ideas on giving states freedom to make laws and regulations they helped to solve the problem. I thought this quote was very fitting. " Federal liberty is to states what civil liberty is to private individuals. "