Patrick Henry believed in the "clean" form of government in which government officials and the entire government, in general, shouldn't be corrupt. He refused a strong central government and denied attendance to the meeting in which it had become the Constitutional Convention, fearing that the decision for a Constitution will be too centralized and strong for the people to have freedom.
It increased the size of the United States because it was based on the idea that America was destined by God to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific, in other words, it encouraged many to expand west.
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