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Official question #14US Citizenship Test
Many documents influenced the U.S. Constitution. Name one.
Correct answer
The Articles of Confederation
Also accepted: Declaration of Independence · Articles of Confederation · Federalist Papers · Anti-Federalist Papers · Virginia Declaration of Rights · Fundamental Orders of Connecticut · Mayflower Compact · Iroquois Great Law of Peace
Why
The Constitution (1787) drew on earlier documents such as the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, the Mayflower Compact and the Iroquois Great Law of Peace; USCIS also accepts the Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers. The other options were all written decades after 1787.
Answer choices
- AThe Emancipation Proclamation
- BThe Gettysburg Address
- CThe Articles of Confederation
- DThe Monroe Doctrine