The Virginia

In addition to those men who argued in general for a central sovereign authority, there were particular interests that stood to gain by the creation of such authority. The most persistent and pervasive were the land companies centering in the landless middle states: the Indiana, the Illinois, and the Wabash companies. They had appealed to centralized government ( Great Britain) before the Revolution; they appealed to Congress once war began, and they got what they wanted in the Dickinson draft of confederation, only to have it removed. They appealed also to Virginia. They were, in fact, ready to uphold either national or state sovereignty if by either means they could get the land they wanted. This site offers professional dissertation editing services for students all over the world