Which Influential Thinker's Writings Led Many of the Constitution's Framers

question 24

Multiple Choice

Which influential thinker's writings led many of the Constitution's framers to reject monarchy as a method of self-rule?

• A) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• B) Thomas Paine
• C) Edmund Burke
• D) Thomas Hobbes
• E) John Stuart Mill

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