Jack of Harts

The New Federal government the Convention of States formed possessed one major advantage over the old government. The new administration used Federal law enforcement to secure the IRS and the other agencies that controlled the vast spigot of Federal funds. Money is one of the most powerful incentives in existence, and the new President controlled the largest single income stream of the era. He did work to dismantle much of it during his term in office, even more than what was no longer Constitutional after the Convention, but even a diminished IRS had vast resources under its control. The new administration controlled the purse strings of the Federal government, not the old one, and that gave the new President a tremendous advantage. He used that advantage in ways that many historians characterize as ruthless. In the end, the new Federal government he formed was the one that survived, so I consider his tactics to be effective.