Type your response in the box. Read the Preamble to the US Constitution: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. The purpose of the Constitutional Convention was to address problems that the Articles of Confederation did not consider. For each part of the Preamble listed, describe a problem that the Constitution was intended to address. establish justice insure domestic tranquility form a more perfect union We the People of the United States of America

Preamble to the US Constitution:

Part of the Preamble                                       Problem intended to address

establish justice                                               inequity

insure domestic tranquility                             civil war

form a more perfect union                             lack of central authority

secure the blessings of liberty                       slavery

We the People of the United States of America:  lack of representation

Explanation:

The United States had Articles of Confederation that made it a confederation of states.  But, that changed in 1789 with the coming into being of the US Constitution, which replaced the Articles of Confederation.  Before then, state governments had so much power far above the central government's.  Then, the central government did not have the power to impose taxes, enforce the laws passed by Congress, and there was no judiciary at the center, among other weaknesses created by the Articles of Confederation.