A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the U.S. Constitution and the Making of the American StateIn this trenchant new interpretation of America's origins, Max Edling shows that the Federalists were primarily concerned with building a government that could act vigorously in defense of American interests. The Constitution transferred the powers of war making and resource extraction from the states to the national government, thereby creating a nation state invested with all the important powers of Europe's eighteenth century 'fiscal military