The founders’ goal was to devise a legislature, an executive, and a judiciary that would correct the flaws of the Articles of Confederation while balancing the rights and powers of citizens against the need for the government to be secure from abuse and corruption (Barbour and Wright, 2017, pg. 92). The founders had the unique opportunity to write the rule book, the Constitution, from scratch, constrained only by the necessity of gaining the approval of sufficient states to allow the Constitution to be ratified and thus seen as legitimate (Barbour and Wright, 2017, pg.