The Constitution was written to replace the Articles of Confederation, the original set of principles governing the new American nation, because A. the Articles of Confederation was never ratified by individual state governments because the delegates arrived late.
B. the Constitution addressed the needs of various ethnic and social groups including a national religion.
C. the Articles of Confederation weakly unified the new country because it placed more power in the state governments instead of the federal government.
D. the Constitution allowed for more states rights and pleased the southern states because they had the largest populations.