[erichocean]

The Federalist Constitution (as we now accept it) wasn't accepted until two years later, after the concession to the Anti-Federalists with the Bill of Rights.

(Ironically, the Bill of Rights is what Americans today cherish most.)

Point is, our system of government today was negotiated by the people and the States and can't reasonably be called a "coup."

[compsciphd]

and the idea being that the bill of rights was only supposed to limit the federal government (i.e. "concession to the anti-federalists") and not the states themselves. It's only incorporation under the 14th amendment that made them applicable to the states and it wasn't particularly clear from the 14th itself that this applied to all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_of_the_Bill_of_R...