What document did new state Constitution replace?

Answer 1

After the Colonies had succeeded in defeating the British the Continental Congress had fufilled it's purpose. A new representational form of government was required to meet the needs of the independent autonomous states. The colonial governments were still very jealous of their independent powers and the best they could agree upon was and advisory congress of state representatives who would attempt to bargain compliance of joint resolutions of the states. The first bylaws for the United States were established as The Articles of Confederation.

After six years of ineffective cooperative action for defence, taxation and international policy the Confederation voted to have an advisory committee established to try and rewrite the bylaws of the Articles. That committee which met in Philadelphia had a secret agenda brought to the committee by men who had nationalist ambitions for America and conviction that only an independent national government with specific authority could represent and advance the interests of all the disperate political elements of the independent states. These national visionaries included George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, and important as the legal mind and author of the Constitution, James Madison.

Rather than provide a document to fix and bolster the Confederation Congress, the Constitutional committee provided a document for a new central government, and the beginnings of a movement to recognize the commonwealth as a national entity.

Answer 2

articles of confederation