eldridge gary was very colorful. so you have these federalists when in reality what you're talking about there many times are nationalists. they believe in a strong central authority, they thought more power should be in the central government or the general government, and then you had the federalists who were often called the anti-federalists. they believe inside a federal government where there was a general government and the states had much of the authority. this is the debate. how much authority is that central government going to have, and how much are the state governments going to have? and that's what we get out of this entire process, and you hear it over and over again. and again, that's the main point of the book, to go through these different opinions. but what i found shocked me. i expected to write a book and say, well, yeah, there were a lot of different opinions, and so you kind of have to bring this out yourself and which one, which one was right. but what i found was this: over and over again the