Boy, this is a good one, first of all you will have to gather some literative background surrounding the history of the American Revolutionary War, and there was tomes written on the subject.
Although I'm not a history major from any Ivy League or higher
prestgious university, still, I'll give it my best shot.
To boil it down to 3 reasons is like trying to bottle the wind, very
very difficult to do.
I'll come as close to it as I can, and here it comes:
Back in the days of the formation of the original Thirteen Colonies, there were many precepts and concepts waved around New York, Philadelphia, Pa., and Washington, D.C.,
and of course bean town, Boston, Mass.
You had the triumverate of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton, trying to hammer out the
Articles of Confederation, handed down from the Mayflower Compact, in part, the Ten Commandments of the Holy Bible
(King James, NIV) The Golden Rule and Hammurabi's Code,
(an eye for an eye) and the Magna Carta that the English people required the English king to sign back in the 12th century.
From the Articles of Confederation came the First Continental Congress, and the Federalist Papers.
After exhausting debate and compromise was endured, and fighting the redcoats in between trying to establish a constitutional
republic, which is the present form of US government.
Gradually the language of specificity was formulated to give us what is now called the US Constitution, after the many months of
slaving away at trying to be fair and equal to all citizens living in the Original Thirteen States.
Thats mostly how the "Bill of Rights" became established, later to become the first ten amendments, to the US Constitution.
Through the oration of men like Thomas Paine and his "Common Sense" advocation, as he was its author, and the
unselfish attitudes of men like Ethan Allen and Nathan Hale.
We also remember Patrick Henry in his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech so well delivered to the government of the day.
Also Constitutional contributors, John Hancock, Aaron Burr
(for a time) John Adams, George Washinton, James Madison,
James Monroe, among many other unsung heroes who received no credit at all for their undying loyalty and patriotism.
Many of those southern Ohio and Kentucky blue grass rural
farm hands who in part formed up the soldiers of liberty to help fight the redcoats, whom the colonists had vowed to overcome,
as taxation without representation is tyranny,among other trite expressions of the day.
Now as far as citing three specific reasons why it was so difficult
to create the US Constitution:
1. Differences of opinions by the elected representatives
(still goes on to this day)
2. Outside foreign influences such as Great Britain and France,
other countries who had trade considerations to garner.
3. Internal warring factions such as native American Tribes
who were fighting the encroachment of white man's culture,
and the on coming "Industrial Revolution"
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