Why did american leaders need to draft a national constitution? check all of the boxes that apply. americans had broken away from british rule. the thirteen colonies had declared themselves to be “united” states. the second continental congress lacked legal authority to act as a central government. the americans could not defeat great britain without a constitution.

the answer is A B AND C

The ten percent plan, formally the Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction (13 Stat. 737), was a United States presidential proclamation issued on December 8, 1863, by United States President Abraham Lincoln, during the American Civil War. By this point in the war (nearly three years in), the Union Army had pushed the Confederate Army out of several regions of the South, and some rebellious states were ready to have their governments rebuilt.