American leaders sought to draft the Constitution as a new plan of government. Why had the previous plan failed?

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American leaders sought to draft the Constitution as a new plan of government. Why had the previous plan failed?

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American leaders sought to draft the Constitution as a new plan of government. Why had the previous plan failed? It created a confederation with weak and central power. Montesquieu outlined a system of checks and balances that would prevent one branch of government from dominating the others.