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.

Option D, it created a confederation with weak central power, is the right answer.

The colonies of the United States did not want to have a strong centralized government, because they did not want the government to become a tyranny. Hence, they did not even provide the national government with some very significant powers such as the power of issuing money, imposing taxes, enforcing laws, declaring war and regulating trade etc.

Therefore, the American leaders sought to draft a new constitution as a new plan of government, by adopting the three-tier of government in the new Constitution.

world war i began in 1914, after the assassination of archduke franz ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. during the conflict, germany, austria-hungary, bulgaria and the ottoman empire (the central powers) fought against great britain, france, russia, italy, romania, japan and the united states (the allied powers). to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, world war i saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. by the time the war was over and the allied powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead.

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