When the United States declared itself a sovereign nation, the Articles of Confederation were drafted to serve as the nation's first Constitution. Under these articles, the states held most of the power. ; but due to almost absent centralized government, the colonists were ill-equipped to deal with practices such as regulating interstate and international commerce, collecting taxes, resolving interstate disputes, negotiation with foreign nations and, more importantly, enforcement of laws under the current regime. concept of “Congress”. Realizing that there were several shortcomings in the current system of self-government, the states appointed delegates to ratify the situation and find a way to achieve the aforementioned practices they needed to be an independent and functioning nation. The delegates, also known as the Framers of the Constitution, did not exactly agree on how to create a new system of government, with two camps emerging with opposing but comparable motivations on how to keep it functioning efficiently. of their country. First there were the federalists, supporters of a stronger national government....