The Following Questions Are Based on the Excerpt Below

question 19

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
-What was generally accepted as a necessary qualification for the rights of citizenship in the first few decades of United States' government?

• A) Membership in the Federalist Party
• B) Participation in the American Revolution
• C) Ownership of property
• D) Having been born in territories of the United States

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Definitions:

C4 Pathway

The C4 pathway is a photosynthetic process in some plants that captures carbon dioxide more efficiently in hot, dry climates, enhancing their ability to fix carbon.

Light-Independent Reactions

Also known as the Calvin cycle, these are chemical reactions in photosynthesis that convert carbon dioxide and other compounds into glucose, occurring without the direct need for light.

Carbon

A chemical element with symbol C and atomic number 6, known as the basic building block of life, present in all known life forms and the basis of organic chemistry.