There were (and continue to be) multiple practical effects
of the writing of the Constitution. The most important of these practical effects was
that the Constitution allowed the new country to continue to function as an actual
unified country instead of splitting up into a separate little
countries.
Before the Constitution was written, the states
had tremendous powers under the Articles of Confederation and the central government had
very little power. This is not a good recipe for success. If a country has a system
like this, it will not remain (de facto, at least) a real country. Instead, it will be
a country in name only where the states might as well be
independent.
Had it not been for the Constitution, it is
likely that the states would have drifted further apart, instead of seeing themselves as
part of a greater whole. They had already done this to some extent, doing things like
having trade wars and boundary disputes. If this had continued, there would probably
never have been the large, powerful, united country that the United States now
is.
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