[merrylander]

I am suggesting (as do the 18 pages of James Madison's preface to His Notes of the debates of the 1787 Convention) that the real reason for writing the Constitution was quite simply the Confederacy was not working. The Conferate Congress had no compulsion, it was purely voluntary. States that had no access to ports were being taxed by the states through which they had to access the sea, as one example. The period from 1777 up until the Constitution was ratified was quite frankly a bloody farce.

Now you can go and buy your own copy and read the preface because I do not plan on typing out all eighteen pages.

It is/was published by W W Norton ISBN 0-393-30405-1 $14.95 entitled
Notes of debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 reported by James Madison.