It is true, as has been before observed that facts, too stubborn to be resisted, have produced a species of general assent to the abstract proposition that there exist material defects in our national system...This renders a full display of the principal defects of the Confederation necessary, in order to show that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building, which cannot be amended otherwise than by an alteration in the first principles and main pillars of the fabric.” Alexander Hamilton, FEDERALIST No. 15

According to the excerpt from Federalist Paper 15, what does Alexander

Hamilton want?

to return to British Rule

to building a new capital city in the District of Columbia

to fix the Articles of Confederation by weakening the national government

to replace the Articles of Confederation with the Constitution