Samuel <span>Slater</span> and Francis Cabot Lowell I think.
Its fair to say that "it is designed to bend like a willow" because the constitution was made fairly flexible, and this gave the government bandwidth to extend its power to meet new situations.
He wanted himself to change as much as he wanted others to change as well, but he saw that it was a very difficult task to change oneself, and by seeing that, he understood the challenges he would face when changing the people.
The british were arming them and the americans were stealing their land