Many of the delegates at the Philadelphia Convention argued for a stronger national government, as one of the weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that it created a weak national government. The Constitutional Convention was held in 1787.
The convention that came to be known as the Constitutional Convention or the Federal Convention, meeting in Philadelphia, was instructed by the government under the Articles to revise the existing frame of government. Instead, the delegates decided to throw out the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution for the nation.
A new government
The delegates of the Constitutional Convention were supposed to revise the Articles of Confederation, not create an entirely new government. This four month convention in Philadelphia lasted from May 25 to September 17, 1787.
the confederation government was too weak to meet the needs of the country
The Constitutional Convention was not referred to by that name because the convention was held to amend the Articles of Confederation, not to create a new framework for the US government. At the time, it was referred to alternately as the Convention at Philadelphia, or the Philadelphia Convention. It acquired the "Constitutional" label later because that it was a more appropriate name for the historic event.
Many of the delegates at the Philadelphia Convention argued for a stronger national government, as one of the weakness of the Articles of Confederation was that it created a weak national government. The Constitutional Convention was held in 1787.
Well, the Congress of the Confederation was a legislative branch under the Articles of Confederation. So the Constitutional Convention would've still come turned out the way it regularly turned out to be. The states would still have the same powers because the government was under the Articles of Confederation was a weak government anyways.
The convention that came to be known as the Constitutional Convention or the Federal Convention, meeting in Philadelphia, was instructed by the government under the Articles to revise the existing frame of government. Instead, the delegates decided to throw out the Articles of Confederation and write a new constitution for the nation.
A new government
To amend the Articles of Confederation
The framers of the US Constitution met in Philadelphia in 1787 to 1789 to create a new government to replace the Articles of Confederation government.
The Constitutional Convention (or the Philadelphia Convention, as it was known at the time) was called to amend the Articles of Confederation, the rules for the United States' first independent government. But when the fifty-five delegates attempted to amend the plan, they realized the task was impossible. The delegates scrapped the Articles of Confederation and secretly began working to devise an entirely new framework for government, the US Constitution.
The constitutional convention was held to replace the articles of Confederation. The articles were the government before they wrote the constitution. James Madison famously took notes on this convention.
The delegates of the Constitutional Convention were supposed to revise the Articles of Confederation, not create an entirely new government. This four month convention in Philadelphia lasted from May 25 to September 17, 1787.
Rhode Island did not attend the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. They feared the idea of a strong federal government.
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was originally intended for the states to revise the Articles of Confederation. However, when all the representatives assembled in Philadelphia, the convention quickly became a meeting on how to create a new government instead of fixing the current one. The Convention led to the writing of the US Constitution and thus, all three branches of the American government: Executive, Legislative and Judicial.