After going through the revolution to separate themselves with England, the last thing America wanted was a tyrannical system of government. By giving the central government very little power with which to abuse, in theory, no one would have to live under a cruel ruler, but rather live under the more localized states who in theory are run by the people even more so than the nation. The Articles of Confederation did many things that would be essentially copied over into the constitution because it did it so well. It’s possible that even though the weak central government is the Articles of Confederation’s biggest drawback, it was necessary for the time. If it had immediately set up a strong centralized government, there is a chance the states would have immediately split under the fears they would just end up as if they were still under England.
The constitution is an amazing document built to last. It was made to stand and work through any possible downfall of the country with systems of checks and balances to make sure that no one becomes to powerful as to form a monarchy. It has only had to be amended 27 times over the whole of American history. It lays out what is the best system the world has ever seen be implemented in running something as big as a country. It also fixed how the Articles of Confederation had very nearly no central government and replaced that with a system that, minus tending towards a two party system that mostly runs for the majority and tends to ignore minorities (this doesn’t seem fixable though. That can be chalked up to human nature) has been working amazingly well for hundreds of years.
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