History

Nikita

5 July, 03:17

Why were state constitutions significant when the U. S. Constitution was written?

A.

State constitutions did not guarantee rights, so the authors of the U. S. Constitution included a bill of rights.

B.

The people who wrote the state constitutions had learned valuable lessons about writing a constitution.

C.

By using the state constitutions as models, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention avoided almost all disagreements.

D.

Most of the U. S. Constitution was directly copied from state constitutions.