The Following Questions Are Based on the Excerpt Below

question 41

Multiple Choice

The following questions are based on the excerpt below.
"From decades of debate on the colonists' right to self-government,popular sovereignty had emerged as the basic principle of legitimate government. But how was this principle to be realized in practice? ...Whig social contract theory specified that sovereignty resided in the will of the majority of the participants in the contract,limited only by the individual member's right to life,liberty,and property. Applied to the colonies,the question was,who were the legitimate participants in the new polity based on contract?"
Willi Paul Adams,The First American Constitutions,1980
-Which of the following most directly contradicts the founding principles described in the passage?

• A) The Constitution's failure to resolve conflicts between American Indian tribes and the government
• B) The development of the idea of "republican motherhood"
• C) The formation of political parties in response to controversy in the early republic
• D) The growth of slavery in the lower South

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