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It is obviously impracticable in the Federal Government of these States to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be preserved; and, on the present occasion, this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety--perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected; and thus, the Constitution which we now present is the result of a spirit of amity, and of that mutual deference and concession, which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable. —September 17, 1787

How did the members of the constitutional convention view the relationship between the states and the federal government?
A. States must give some authority to the federal government for the good of the nation as a whole.
B. The federal government should provide states with a greater level of sovereignty to avoid conflict.
C. The states and the federal government must together yield to the wishes of all citizens to form a proper democracy.

After the 13 Colonies gained independency from Great Britain, the states remained sovereign and were united by a weak central government under the Articles of Confederation, this is what the Constitutional Convention intended to review.

The Constitutional Convention took place in 1787 in the old Pennsylvania State House. Members of the Constitutional Convention view the relationship between the states and the federal government as a weak government that could not mantain order, and decided that the Articles of Confederation should be replaced in order to obtain a federal government that could mantain order and balance between the states, while they remained free and sovereign. They created three branches (executive, legislative and judicial) so there would not be an abuse of power, and every state could be represented in the federal government.