Why were people hesitant to give much power to state governments

Our framers didn't want to give too much power to state governments because otherwise, they would continue to act like 13 individual countries instead of one unified country. That's why, in the Constitution, they gave most of the power to the federal government, but they did include rights that the states have so they wouldn't feel like the central government was dominating over them.

He was far away from he's children and wife but then when he came to the united states from the long trip from Europe he got to see them and become a president