Question

Most Honorable Delegates, I recommend that state leaders replace the Articles of Confederation. We need a new Constitution. I have listed three weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation below. I include an explanation of why each weakness is a problem. Weakness #1: Explanation: Weakness #2: Explanation: Weakness #3: Explanation:

Answer 1

Most Honorable Delegates,

I recommend that state leaders replace the Articles of Confederation. We need a new Constitution. I have listed three weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation below. I include an explanation of why each weakness is a problem.

Weakness #1: Congress could not pay taxes

Explanation: Taxes pay for a government’s functions. Congress could only request money from the state legislatures. If the states did not send any, Congress was powerless.

Weakness #2: Congress could not raise a national military separate from the states

Explanation: During the Revolutionary War, General George Washington had to request money for supplies. Congress could not force the states to pay for the troops' needs, and they often went without, starving at times.

Weakness #3: Each state printed its own currency

Explanation: A person might need paper money from several different states to do business. Currencies from different states did not have the same value.

Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

This is how I would rewrite the Preamble so that other people can understand it. I hope it helps increase support for the new Constitution.

My Preamble: We the People of the United States of America write this Constitution to create our nation better and to ensure proper justice and peace at home, to protect our citizens, to help us and to preserve the rights of every person, and future generations.

Sincerely,

Your name

Answer 2

The correct answer to this open question is the following.

As there is no specific question here, we assume that what you need is to list and include the argument for each explanation. If that is the case, then the explanations would be the following.

Most Honorable Delegates, I recommend that state leaders replace the Articles of Confederation. We need a new Constitution. I have listed three weaknesses of the Articles of Confederation below. I include an explanation of why each weakness is a problem.

Weakness #1: The Articles of Confederation left a weak central government.

Explanation: Congress, the central figure of the federal government was very limited and had few responsibilities such as running the post office and dealing with Native American issues.

Weakness #2: the central government did not have money.

Explanation: The states were sovereign under the Articles of Confederation. That meant that they could collect money through taxation. If the central government needed money, it had to ask for it from the states.

Weakness #3: Security of the country. The central government could not raise an army.

Explanation: Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government was not capable to raise a much needed national army. This issue became important during the Shay Rebellion in Massachusetts.