The Articles of Confederation failed because it lacked the properties of what a constitution needs. The federalist felt that the Articles did not have what it needed to become a sufficiently effective government. The Biggest part was those who favored a more powerful central state, was the government lacked taxing authority. It had to ask for funds from the states. Another problem of the Articles was that they did not have the right balance between large and small states in the legislative decision making process. Mainly the Articles just lacked too many important processes and power issues to really be a document that would run our country so they had to make the Constitution.
The goal of our founding fathers during the constitutional convention was to create a document that would give us the bases of our government, with laws, rules, and rights that would make us all equal. This document also set out to have the republican gov. which allot of the farmers who had nothing to do with it didn't like it, that they would have to pay taxes and follow these laws and regulations, so some of them that didn't believe this gov. rebelled against it.
This is why they made the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights Restricts the powers of the Federal Government of the U.S., protecting the rights of all people in the United States, Basically giving the rights of the common people/farmers so they don't fell completely controlled by the Gov.
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