Edited sentence: Also, manufacturers wanted a high tariff as a barrier to foreign goods, but competition between states made this impossible without a central government.In particular, holders of war scrip and land speculators wanted a central government to pay off scrip at face value and to legalize western land holdings with disputed claims.Many of the participants in the closed Constitutional Convention were scrip and/or land speculators.When the war ended in 1783, special interests conspired to create a new "merchant state," much like the British state people had rebelled against