The US Constitution is a very statist and authoritarian document, especially as originally written. Only property owning white Christian men were allowed to participate in the political process and even then without direct elections. Look up Shey’s rebellion, the anarchist leaning failed revolution after the British were defeated in the war of independence in 1776. The Constitution ten years later in 1787, was an attempt at restoring a central government, essentially ending the original American political project of anti authoritarian direct democracy in New England.
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