If leaders wanted to create a government that was more effective than the government under the articles of confederation, which is the most important idea that should be embraced? the national and state governments should be equal. the national government cannot be weak. the national government must have an elected leader. the state governments should be weak.

The nation government cannot be weak. The Articles of Confederation were scrapped because the newly-born US was too much of a Confederacy. The Federalist party wanted to write the Constitution, those the strong-nation-government aspect of it. The Bill of Rights was added later by James Madison to appease the Democratic-Republicans, and to get big states like Virginia to vote in favour of it. Hope I could help! <3