He believed it was essential for the Union that states maintain strong, autonomous state governments.
If the states were enfeebled, then discord would grow between them even more and people would not be fond of the federation as they would feel it was foisting unjust laws on them.
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Repeating mistakes we made again in the future, hope this helped.
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A The U.S. wanted the French to stop seizing U.S. ships going to Britian
That's right. The American Revolution was the first instance of guerrilla warfare; they had home turf advantage and were able to catch the British off guard frequently.