Compléter Test prep fill-inVersion en ligne test prep par Steve Proctor 1 Our first government failed . It was called the Articles of . Basically , it was designed to be because the new USA did not trust a strong central government . As a result - the AOC depended too much on the who did not trust each other . The Articles could do a number of things but did not have the authority to so it could not fund an or navy . The Articles failed and was replaced by a document and government known as the . Several compromises were needed to pass the constitution . A house legislature was created to satisfy both large and states . Because the House of was based on , it was determined that slaves would be counted 3 / 5 in a compromise between southern and states . To pass the constitution , and Anti - Federalists argued over adding a of to the document . A Bill of rights - protecting civil liberties - was added later to the Constitution as its first 10 . According to the authors of our founding documents - our rights are provided to us by . It is the role of to secure or protect those rights . In fact , the government gets its power from the consent of the it is supposed to protect and if it fails to protect - or becomes - it is the right of the to change or abolish it .