According to Hamilton's writing in the second paragraph, what is one reason the new Constitution would be opposed?

People did not trust the ideas included in the proposed Constitution.
The government already in place at the time was functioning well.
Those already in government did not want to lose their positions.
The new Constitution would not provide privileges to everyone.

Question

According to Hamilton's writing in the second paragraph, what is one reason the new Constitution would be opposed?

 People did not trust the ideas included in the proposed Constitution.
 The government already in place at the time was functioning well.
 Those already in government did not want to lose their positions.
 The new Constitution would not provide privileges to everyone.

anonymous · Answer

This is the paragraph:

Among the most formidable of the obstacles which the new Constitution will have to encounter may readily be distinguished the obvious interest of a certain class of men in every State to resist all changes which may hazard a diminution of the power, emolument, and consequence of the offices they hold under the State establishments; and the perverted ambition of another class of men, who will either hope to aggrandize themselves by the confusions of their country, or will flatter themselves with fairer prospects of elevation from the subdivision of the empire into several partial confederacies than from its union under one government.