The Constitution. Why Did it Fail to uphold the Union that it created ?

The Constitution certainly contributed to the failure of the union it created. The document was originally formed with the intention of unifying the newly formed United States of America. Since then, the Constitution was effective in protecting the rights and ideals of the people. But by 1850, the Constitution had become a point of sectional disunity and had influenced a split both politically and ideologically between the North and the South. The writers of this document …

…constructed as a sign of unity for the United States, it resulted in the disunity and sectional tensions which ultimately led to the Civil War. The document's unresolved issues of succession and slavery were the main causes for the unions sectional problems. In the 1850s and the years leading up to the Civil War, the Constitution's failure to address these certain important issues resulted in the separation and division of the union it had created.