Why did the delegates to the Constitutional Convention avoid using the word “nation” in the Constitution?
a. Southern states refused to ratify the Constitution if it referred to a nation.
b. “Nation” implies a unitary regime.
c. Anti-federalists threatened to assemble a new Constitutional Convention.
d. The Declaration expressly rejected this term.
e. Thomas Jefferson advised against it.
ANS: B
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