Many americans wanted a new plan of goverment because the article of confederation was too

The Articles of Confederation gave the national level of government little to no power, so the national government could not pay its debt off from the revolution, tax the states, build another army in case of foreign invasion by another country (france, uk, spain...etc) so the founders rewrote the national law.

The answer would be a

He droped it over the bridge into the river