In the eleven years before the Constitution was created, the Founding Fathers learned that they needed a strong national government, where a handful of people held all the power and did what they thought was best for the people, justly ruling with total control. Before the Constitution, the national Congress “did not have the powers to levy and collect taxes, or regulate trade and commerce between the states” (Text, 54). This meant that the government had no source for the money it needed and no way of controlling the actions of the people. Alexander Hamilton believed that “the only way to fix the growing problems of the new nation was to implement a strong national government designed to protect property and civil liberties from the state
