Failure Of The Constitution In The United States

Writing the United States Constitution was a very long very hard process. They needed a new constitution, they failed with the Articles of Confederation, they couldn’t stay unified in the face of a crisis like Shay’s Rebellion; every state had their own government but they needed to be unified. The problem was that everyone wanted it to be perfect, but the debates over what to include were very controversy. Not everyone could decide on one thing, with a country filled with a diverse group of people it would be hard to all agree on one thing. One of the problems in writing a constitution was that everyone was from a different political party. There were complaints formed at the time, that the minority was being ignored and being treated less
The problem was that some people preferred a more central government and some favored more state governments. Colonists wanted to make sure their natural human rights were preserved by the constitution and couldn’t be abused again, like Britain’s king abused their rights. Some others believed that the bill of rights should include state powers, so the individual states could have some control over their laws. However, there was some people who didn’t want a bill of rights because they deemed it superfluous or unnecessary. “A fifth is of opinion that a bill of rights of any sort would be superfluous and misplaced, and that the plan would be unexceptionable but for the fatal power of regulating the times and places of election” (doc C). Some of the colonists saw that it was a necessary evil to take away the state governments that were under the Articles of Confederation. Under that old constitution, states controlled everything and nothing was unified, and the country couldn’t face a crisis, so it was time for a change. (doc D) They believed that it would lead to a crisis because forcing change is difficult on some more than others, and some don’t like the idea of being ruled under one leader. The colonists think that it will be a dreadful and problematic task but it is worth it because the government needs to be unified as a whole to stand
The federalists were happy that there was a federal government and that they were unified, and the anti-federalists were happy that they had their own individual rights and a checks and balance system to keep corruption from occurring in the government. Everyone has their own opinion, America is very diverse today and it was diverse in beliefs back then, so it was extremely hard for all of the colonists to stick together, without hurting one another, and form a unified country with a constitution that kept it all together, they were very patient, they had to be it was their ‘perfect’ government. Everyone wanted the perfect constitution because they wanted to prevent anything from happening that happened with their old king. The constitution had to be settled on, so both sides got some of their ideas put in, but both also had to give up some things to finally come together on a government, because the last one (Articles of Confederation) wasn’t working and the country wasn’t