Constitutional convention breaks up

What would need to happen to have the Constitutional convention break up and what would happen afterwards?
 
If you can get rid of Roger Sherman somehow before he proposes the Connecticut Compromise perhaps you could have some infighting between the advocates for the opposing plans.
 
A completely different Constitution

Or

The 13 states agreeing to be in a trading and allied union but each being its own individual country-like state.
 
How? Sure, they could get a couple of amendments passed, but the AoC required UNANIMOUS consent to amendments, and any significant strengthening of them would be shot down by someone. Probably Rhode Island.

I should note that the Constitution was passed without unanimous consent because it was a new document. This suggests that there is room for politicking which violates the letter of the Articles.

"This is the Articles of Federation. Completely different."

What these threads tend to ignore is that there was a strong body of support for a more centralized government, which is how we ended up with the Constitution in OTL. A lot of Antifederalists were opposed to the Constitution but agreed we needed reform.

This isn't as sexy as "Americans start raping each other's corpses," but it's more probable.
 
There was nothing keeping a state from declaring independence on their own other than fear of neighbors. My guess is you'd see state vs state war at some point.
 
There was nothing keeping a state from declaring independence on their own other than fear of neighbors. My guess is you'd see state vs state war at some point.

Unless it's a war over slavery, how do you get the people who formed the US, fought together against the Brits, and then voluntarily gave up more power to a centralized government decide to go to war? If people hated each other as much as you claim, how did they get the Constitution in the first place?

(Again, the trope that Americans will rape each other's corpses....)
 
One reason: western territorial claims.

ITTL the Constitution doesn't happen, and given the precarious nature of individual states, they might fight to defend territorial claims.

Such wars would be pretty low-casualty though.
 
One reason: western territorial claims.

ITTL the Constitution doesn't happen, and given the precarious nature of individual states, they might fight to defend territorial claims.

Such wars would be pretty low-casualty though.

Except the Northwest Territory was established by the Continental Congress in 1787. So in other words, you want two PODs, at a minimum.
 
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