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Many documents influenced the U.S. Constitution. Name one.

OFFICIAL ANSWER
  • 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
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At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, delegates referenced decades of American and European political thought. The Federalist Papers (1787–88) defended the proposed Constitution, while Anti-Federalist Papers warned of potential tyranny. Earlier documents like the Mayflower Compact (1620) and Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) established precedents for written governance and individual liberties that shaped constitutional debates.

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