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Each enemy believed that willpower was weaker on one side rather than the other, resulting in them believing it would be easy and done with.
The proposition that he suggested was that the states should unite into a single union. What inspired him to propose this was the idea on how the Iroquois nation united five different Native-American nations under a single banner into a single union. Nobody supported this but eventually they started supporting the idea.