Which Statement Is True About the Fifty-Five Delegates to the Constitutional

question 13

Multiple Choice

Which statement is true about the fifty-five delegates to the Constitutional Convention?

• A) Thomas Jefferson and John Adams were two key participants.
• B) Less than a quarter of the delegates had college educations.
• C) Most were "self-made men" who had worked their way up from the lower classes.
• D) They shared a belief in the need to curb the "excesses of democracy."
• E) All but five had served in the Continental army during the Revolution.

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