We need a Constitution to create a strong central government. It is the best way to govern our country and it is necessary to preserve liberties. We have more experience, were well educated and were a proper class. We need the Constitution to keep the states from having too much power. The anti-federalist are feared, which gives us a greater chance to get the Constitution.

We should keep the Constitution because it gives the power to those that should have it. Federalists are the responsible ones when it comes to money and government. Anti federalists are jumping ahead of themselves. The Articles give them power, but they have no idea of how to run a government. They will destroy themselves.

The articles of confederation are not working. States are running off on their own and, for the most part, acting as 13 separate countries. The United States of America is supposed to be united. The Articles of Confederation keeps the states from coming together. The constitution ties each of the states together. America will start acting as one country with the Constitution.

In order to keep our country from being thrown into more chaos, we need to adopt the Federalists' constitution. With our current constitution, the Articles of Confederation, the government isn't given enough power to receive taxes and therefore couldn't assist the states of form any type of standing army to protect the US citizens. Without instituting a new constitution we are putting our country at great risk of turning into a state of anarchy.

We need the Federalists' Constitution because we need a strong central government that can preserve liberties. If we have this constitution, we will be able to act on behalf of all of our citizens. The laws will be enforced fairly and consistently. The Constitution's division of power among the three branches (Legislative, Judiciary, and Executive) of the national government can also protect our freedoms and liberties by each branch having the authority to check the other for abuse, excess power, and corruption. The Preamble of the Constitution will emphasize and make the importance of individual rights a priority. This Constitution brings a structure to our government unlike the Articles of Confederation. Our nation can be governed by elected officials of our choice that are full of wisdom, virtue, and experience. Our elected officials will also have limited terms so that they don't become corrupt and drunk with power. The Constitution can also help us advance in our foreign relations, allowing us to pay our debts, protect our people, and enforce the treaties that we have with foreign countries. It will also keep the government officials from turning to their own self interests for their own advantage at the expense of the nation's citizens. The strong, central government that we will have if we have the Federalists' Constitution can settle disputes among the states and prevent uprisings. We need this constitution to help us solve many problems and to protect our nation.

To help our nation not become an anarchy we need to adopt the constitution. The constitution will give us structure. The national government has no power to tax so it is falling into debt. The states are taxing it's citizens way too much and the people need the government to regulate it. Letting our governments be controlled by popular forces will cause anarchy and civil war and some states have already slid into self-destruction. We need a strong unified nation and the constitution will help us come together and prevent us from continuing on the downward spiral that we are on. The Anti-federalists are frightened believing that the national government will take away the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. However, the preamble emphasizes the importance of individual rights. The constitution is in the interest of the public good

We need the Constitution to give our country structure. The Madisonian System will separate powers and provide a system called checks and balances. We are falling into debt because the national government doesn't want to tax the people. A central bank and central government with a standing army is what the states need.

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We should keep the Constituion, because witout it it gives the rabble the power. Things can get out of hand when people have power, because they think they can make any rules they want to because they have no to handle that ower for them. The Constitution is not trying to take the rabble power away its just making things more organized.

We need the Constitution because we need a strong central government. We do not want our states to have to much power, so we need all the branches of government to keep our nation together. We also do not need a monarchy because we don't need something similar to a king.

The Articles of Confederation simply gives the states too much power. With the power to tax, deny the central governments requests, and print their own money, the states ran their governments to the ground. Even the people rebelled against their own state governments because the states had too much power over them. To fix this we to scratch the Articles and bring in the Constitution. The Constitution will give the powers to the central government that are needed in order to save the country. With the Constitution, the federal government can fix the currency chaos, the war debt, and put down rebellions with a strong standing army.

While freedom is important, it should not come at a cost of law and order. With a dominant and strong central government, that the constitution will provide, the united states will be able to properly function in the good times and bad. Achieving a stronger national government and the ratification of the constitution will properly manage the debt that followed the American revolution. Especially after Shay's rebellion, political leaders recognized the deep need for a more concentrated federal power that the articles of confederation could not provide. the articles of confederation was a very weak agreement on which to set as the base for a great nation especially seeing as it doesn't even call itself the United States of America but as "a firm league of friendship"

Although more freedom and less structure sound appealing to some, when it boils down to it, we cannot function without structure or things will get out of hand. With a growing country, more people means more problems and it is best to establish structure in order to avoid chaos in the United States. The purpose of the Constitution isn't to have full authority over everyone and everything like England, but it gives just the right amount of power. It is understandable that there is a fear of too much power without the Articles of Confederation, but the Constitution isn't meant to do that. The branches along with checks and balances help because no one branch will get too much power.

With power being given to the individual states more so than the federal government, America is in a less organized and chaotic state. By allowing the Constitution to go through, there would be a strong federal military with trained soldiers protecting the country, rather than smaller militias of untrained men protecting the individual states, the federal government would have the ability to better tax the states, making it so that the states have to support the country they're apart of, and, in general, the country would be better unified as a whole.

The Constitution is vital for a consistently functional government. We can not take the risk of letting the people rule a government. They will have the potential of forming an anarchy without supervision. Also, people often have severely differing views, and without a strong central government, there would not be an efficient solution. It is much easier to sustain a government with a set of definite laws.

I think we need the Constitution because it allows us to have a strong central government, and that's what we need right now. The Constitution also allows us to have separation of powers and checks and balances which ensures that no one is gaining too much power. It also makes sure we have Senators, Representatives, and state legislatures.

The Articles of Confederation is not working for our country. We should move to new Constitution to have a strong central government. With the legislative, judicial, and executive branch we would have more control over our country. With the Constitution, we would have more structure.

The government needs to be centralized in an area with the ability to tax and the ability to have a single, strong currency. In the current situation, with the Articles of Confederation(AoC), states are over taxing land owners and passing laws that contradict each other. If the government is centralized, we can have one set of strong laws that lay the general guidelines and laws for each state to follow. From there, the local and state governments can decide the things not covered by the Constitution. The constitution will be better for the people, from wealthy and uneducated to poor and physically hard working, because it will be agreed upon by the people of each state. If the AoC stay in place, the states will fall apart and Europe will come in and slowly take land from each state until the US is no more.

The Articles of Confederation needs to go. They do no create a strong central government, which is what we truly need to be a successful country. It will be easier to pass bills with more than one branch. We need the Constitution to set things straight and keep us from failing all together.

We need a new constitution because without it our states are going to become an anarchy. The new constitution will provide a strong government for the states and create and order that people can't deny. Federalist are strong and provide for the country and are devoted to order.

The articles of confederation just aren't cutting it, our central government has no power to aid in the development of our country. They can't tax anyone without that state's consent. Who in their right mind would consent to taxes?? The government must make laws to require it if we are going to not be a broke country. The federalists' constitution will do that among other things and for that reason, the federalists' constitution must be adopted

We need to move towards the new Constitution if our goal is to build a unified nation, the nation was too divided under the Articles of Confederation. The Articles gave individual states too much powerful and freedom. There was no national currency, so trading with foreign nations was practically impossible and our national military was too weak if invaded by Foreigners or Indians.

The Articles of Confederation are tearing our nation apart. The states have too much power which is resulting in America acting 13 separate unions. Adopting the constitution would stop the individual state rebellion. America needs a strong central government to keep our debts and currency under control.

Keeping the Consititution is in our best interest. The Constitution is the option that gives us the best structure and keeps us the most United. A strong, central government is the best way to govern our country if we want to ensure that the states don't get too much power.

With the power that the states have under the Articles of Confederation, they do not contribute their full amount to the central government. Because of this, soldiers did not receive payments for their service in the Revolutionary War. This led to Shay's Rebellion as farmers fell into debt. There also were no soldiers to put down these said rebellions. The country could not effectively defend itself against would-be invaders.

We should keep the constitution to have a strong central government. The Articles of Confederations gives too much power to the states.The rules of the US should all be equal all around no matter the state. The Constitution keeps the citizens of the US more organized and better educated.

The constitution is needed severely. Our weak nation is crumbling and it's only a matter of time before it's gone. Our central government needs the power to tax its people to pay it's soldiers that fought for this nation to be created. Foreign creditors our making a fool of us saying we are too weak. How are we going to grow stronger as a nation if someone as little as Rhode Island is holding us back from paying our people? Mass deflation is spreading across the country, hurting our farmers. Ignorant assemblies are passing laws, not knowing what they're doing. The future looks very uncertain for our young nation.

We should move to a new Constitution because the states had too much power, and it would be better if we split the power into three branches so nobody has too much power. A strong central government is the best way to govern our country. The constitution is the best way to protect the people's rights, so everyone can be treated equally. (Federalist)

I think we should go and move to a new Constitution. The Constitution only limited the government not the people. We did not want the Articles , the new Constitution was sufficient. The Articles could not provide for its defense in an emergency.

I think we should make a new constitution. We are not guaranteed life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in the Articles. It has no central government, and all the states govern themselves. We need a strong central government to keep this nation in line. The Articles prohibits a standing army. They only have one branch of government, while the federalists want three. Articles only allows one vote per state, while the feds allow two plus the house and senate.

We need the Constitution so that every state is considered equal under one superior instead of each state having power. You might say that all states are equal since they all have one vote, but what about economical? States that have ports can receive more money and are able to collect their own import tax. Having the Constitution means having taxes controlled by one central government.

The Articles of Confederation do not give enough power to the central government. Our country as a whole will fall if the states continue to carry themselves as sovereign countries and not as apart of The United States of America. The country will cripple without the ability to tax or a standing army to protect itself.

The Articles of Confederation gave the states more power than they could handle. The states were like countries and the nation as a whole was like a continent with no order. Under the Articles, there was no unity between states, so there was no point of having a federal gov't to try to regulate with states. The Constitution gave the country a set of rules that would guarantee unity.

Constitution we would be better for the government as a whole because it would lead to more structure across the board. With the states having different currencies and when people travel to different states it could create havoc on the economy so with the constitution and one currency it would be general across all the states.

I think we need the federalist constitution, because it would make our country stronger. It would give our country a better structure , and the constitution will stop us from becoming a unitary democracy. The constitution will allow our country to come together as one , and we will be able to figure things out better. Meaning that we won't have to always fight in the states , because we will have distinct laws that have to be followed by everyone .

We need to replace the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution. The Articles of Confederation is not something a true country should abide by. It has so many issues such as a broke national government which meant that the states could not pay war debts, high state taxes, etc. Keeping the Articles of Confederation would just be disastrous for our new nation.

The United States need a strong central government if it wants to prosper. Separately, the states are struggling, because they tax their citizens too high, can't defend themselves with their weak militias, and their different currencies are inflating the economy. With a stronger federal power, the government can regulate taxes and have a standing army that can defend us better against threats. The anti-feds argue that one group will have too much power over the farmers and artisans, but the system of checks and balances in the Constitution is set up to prevent that and give the rabble a voice as well, while still keeping the educated with more power.

We need the constitution because the US some type of some type of structure. They wanted a decentralized government that supported the wealthy business class.

Structure. Structure. Structure. Under the Articles of Confederation, the anti-federalist are driving our nation to the ground. There is no structure, and our country will be in shambles if we do not form a centralized government. A concern of the people seems to be that with a executive branch, we are giving one man too much power, but with the Madisonian System, we have set up a system of checks and balances so no one branch has too much power. With these checks and balances, we are guaranteeing that the will of the people is being carried out.

Right now, we are acting as individuals, but for us to truly become a United Nation, we must come together and strengthen our government for the betterment of our dawning new world.

The articles didn't give enough power to federal government. While bad during their short life, the situation would have gotten worse over time with rebellions and possible war between states due to the national governments inability to stop it.

Hello,

We don't use the Articles of Confederation anymore. They were eliminated. We currently DO use the Constitution. What do you mean?