American leaders sought to draft the Constitution as a new plan of government. Why had the previous plan failed? It concentrated power in the states. It heavily restricted the sovereignty of individual states. It allowed for a power struggle between the central government and the states. It created a confederation with weak central power.
it created a confederation with weak central power. the articles of confederation were meant to be temporary, and therefore were not very well thought out. it had lots of faults, but the main problem was how weak the entire thing was
