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Patrick Henry believed the government had been founded on the false assumption of liberty, and now it was attempting to take it away by creating a government which would be as bad as the last one. He believed the Federalists intended to form a tyrannical government. He refused to attend the Constitutional Convention because he 'Smelled a rat.'

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