At the start of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, the delegates ruled that
A. their proceeding would be open to the public.
B. states would have proportional voting based on each state's population.
C. slavery would have to be preserved within the United States.
D. the country needed a stronger army to prevent further popular uprisings.
E. each state delegation would have a single vote.
Answer: E
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a. that the legitimacy of government emanates from the freely given consent of the governed. b. that state officials must be responsible to the representatives of the people rather than to the monarch. c. that democracy, not monarchy, is the ideal form of government. d. a dislike for the monopolization of government by the nobility.
Which of the following did NOT contribute to the outbreak of war between England and Spain?
A. England signed a mutual defense pact with France. B. England's famous seamen began to prey on Spanish shipping. C. England signed a treaty that committed soldiers to the Netherlands. D. England assembled a large land army that rivaled that of Spain. E. Pope Pius V excommunicated Elizabeth I of England.
A major structural flaw of the Peruvian Revolution was that it
A) gave insufficient incentives for investment to the national capitalists. B) favored the peasantry over the urban working and middle classes. C) represented a revolution from above, with little input from below. D) relied on corrupt military technocrats who lacked managerial know-how.
Which is NOT true of the origins of feudalism?
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