According to the authors, why did the writers of the Constitution create such a difficult amendment process?
A) They distrusted people to be active in the political process.
B) They wanted to protect the Constitution from short-lived or temporary passions.
C) They did not want any person or institution to tamper with their original work.
D) They assumed a new constitution would be written about once each generation.
E) They distrusted the motives and abuses of powers by state governments.
B
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a. limitations on the scope and capacity of state power b. resolution of federal debts so as to stabilize the economy c. newly established national powers on par with those of the states d. changes in the fundamental structure of the American government
E. L. Witmer was an early proponent of
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The rights of conscientious objectors are examples of which provision of the First Amendment?
a. The free exercise clause b. The establishment clause c. The due process clause d. The eminent domain cause