The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.
Part A
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The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B.
Part A
America’s Constitution: A Biography states: “The ancient world had seen small-scale democracies in various Greek city-states and pre-imperial Rome. . . .” Which of the following best describes the crucial difference between the ancient governments and the American government?
A. Ancient democracies did not ask citizens to approve their own government.
B. Ancient democracies did not open up debate to the citizens.
C. Ancient democracies did not elect wise or able leaders.
D. Ancient democracies did not allow citizens to vote.
Part B
Which sentence from America’s Constitution: A Biography best supports the answer to Part A?
A. The vaunted English Constitution … was an imprecise hodgepodge of institutions, enactments, cases, usages, maxims, procedures, and principles that had accreted and evolved over many centuries.
B. Before the American Revolution, no people had ever explicitly voted on their own written constitution.
C. With the word fiat, Wilson gently called to mind the opening lines of Genesis. In the beginning, God said, fiat lux, and—behold!—there was light.
D. [N]ew state governments began to take shape, filling the void created by the ouster of George III.
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