President Truman, along with many prominent politicians at the time, believed the United States should sign the treaty because he thought it would prevent another World War II, but most importantly the spread of communism.
The Constitutional Convention was called because the federal government established by the Articles of Confederation was considered to be too weak to effectively deal with the young nation's issues. Officially, the purpose of the convention was to revise the Articles of Confederation. Many feel that this was a drastic understatement, and that the real goal of many of its key proponents was to replace the Articles of Confederation and create a strong federal government.
