the federal pact had an article declaring that a new constituent assembly should be called to write a constitution as soon as the military threats were defeated. the defeat of paz and the expansion of the federal pact further ushered in a period of economic and political stability. as a result, federalists were divided between two political trends: those who wanted the calling of such constituent assembly, and those who supported rosas in delaying it. rosas thought that the best way to organize the argentine confederation was as a federation of federated states, similar to the successful states of the united states; each one should write its own local constitution and organize itself, and a national constitution should be written at the end, without being rushed.