No, the US would not have survived 5 more years under the Articles of Confederation. By the time the Constitutional Convention was adopted, the the states retained considerable power. However, the states were on the brink of economic disaster with extraordinary inflation; and the central government had little power to settle quarrels between states. Disputes over territory, war pensions, taxation, and trade threatened to tear the new country apart. They were no longer working together to defeat the British…and many felt they had no reason to work together at all. It was each State for itself. By mid-June of 1787, the Constitutional Convention secretly assembled in Philadelphia and drafted the Constitution to entirely replaced the Articles of Confederation.