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Why do people create, structure, and change government?

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The government created under the Articles of Confederation was ineffective, so the Framers wrote an entirely new Constitution and fundamentally changed the government. They did this "to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility," and for other reasons. Yet they purposely made the new Constitution extremely difficult to change. (That is why there are so few amendments.) In a short essay, explain why a group of people who saw the value of changing a government would create such a difficult process for making future changes to the new government.

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