What stronger evidence can be given of the want of energy in our governments than these disorders? If there exists not a power to check them, what security has a man of life, liberty, or property? . . . The consequences of a lax, or inefficient government, are too obvious to be dwelt on.

–George Washington,
Letter to James Madison, 1786

What was a result of the concerns expressed in this letter?

the drafting of the Articles of Confederation
the uprising in Massachusetts known as Shays’s Rebellion
the call for the Constitutional Convention
the addition of the Bill of Rights to the Constitution