The Confederation's weakness lad to calls for a stronger national government that could effectively unite the country. In 1787 representatives from all the states met in Philadephia once again. This was called The Constitution Convention. There were many different points of view about what the new constitution should look like. The members of the Convention argued and debate for months. In the end that all agreed with these two main goals: 1. To create a national government that would be strong enough to ensure the survival of the United States. 2. to make sure that the newly created national government would never have too much power.
With these goals in mind, the members of the Convention wrote a constitution which set up a federal system where power was divided between the national government and state governments. The national government would have much more power than before, but individual states would still be allowed to pass certain laws. This new constitution also included the idea of " a separation of powers" or "a system of checks and balances". The new federal government was to have three main parts so no one part could ever have too much power. Each part would have the power to check the power of other two parts in certain situation.