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The Federalists papers were designed to inform the US citizens of how the government was set up. The paper attempted to demonstrate the ways that the Articles of Confederation were ill conceived.
Congress had the power to make decisions but not to enforce them.
In the Articles of Confederation the reason they did not want a strong national government is because they do not want any one person to get very powerful like a monarchy.
The answer to this question is this.... They opposed having such a strong central government and thus were against the Constitution.
The central government had insufficient power to regulate commerce
They change it to Constitutional Convention because Articles of Confederation was to weak.
Before our current Constitution, there was the Articles of Confederation between the various states. For a variety of reasons, the Articles of Conferation proved unsatisfactory, and so a Convention was convened to debate the formation of a "a more perfect union" through a new Constitution.
The Federalists papers were designed to inform the US citizens of how the government was set up. The paper attempted to demonstrate the ways that the Articles of Confederation were ill conceived.
Before our current Constitution, there was the Articles of Confederation between the various states. For a variety of reasons, the Articles of Conferation proved unsatisfactory, and so a Convention was convened to debate the formation of a "a more perfect union" through a new Constitution.
the president of the united states
Congress had the power to make decisions but not to enforce them.
the claim of 7 of 13 states
enumerated power
It contained a bill of rights
In order to know which of these reasons was NOT a basis for the Anti-federalists opposition to the new constitution one would need to know the choices for answers.
The first, and only, US Constitution is The Constitution of the United States of America. The basis of the first government of the US was called the Articles of Confederation. It's a flexible document and can be adjusted by means of Amendments when necessary.
Congress had the power to make decisions but not to enforce them.