Question

How did State Constitutions influence the development of the U.S. Constitution?

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It’s from the app TCI lesson 9

Answer 1

The amendments to the Constitution that Congress proposed in 1791 were strongly influenced by state declarations of rights, particularly the Virginia Declaration of Rights of 1776, which incorporated a number of the protections of the 1689 English Bill of Rights and Magna Carta.