Why was the Constitutional Convention necessary? A. The citizens wanted a new constitution to be written. B. The Articles of Confederation were not working. C. Delegates met to sign a peace agreement with France and Spain. D. The colonies needed to declare war on Great Britain.

The Constitutional Convention was arguably necessary because the Articles of Confederation were not working effectively (B). The participants came to the convention in order to adjust or rewrite the Articles of Confederation, however, in the process they ended up writing an entirely new constitution.