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Which BEST describes the representative democracy the Founding Fathers outlined in Article VII of the United States Constitution?

A) Article VII required a national popular vote to ratify the Constitution.

B) Article VII required the states to ratify the Constitution by a popular vote in each state.

C) Article VII required the Constitution to be ratified by each state sending representatives, chosen by the people of that state, to a special meeting, instead asking the existing state governments to ratify the Constitution.

D) Article VII required the Constitution to be ratified by the peoples' "original representatives", also known as the representatives from each state who signed the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.

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Answer:  C) Article VII required the Constitution to be ratified by each state sending representatives, chosen by the people of that state, to a special meeting, instead asking the existing state governments to ratify the Constitution.

Explanation: Article VII required each state to hold special ratifying conventions of representatives chosen by the people of a state, instead asking the existing state governments to ratify the Constitution. The Founders did not think the existing state legislatures would ratify the Constitution because those governments would not agree to give up the power they had under the Articles of Confederation. Therefore, the Founders required the people of each state to send representatives to special conventions to ratify the Constitution.

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Rather than just requiring the preexisting state and local governments to approve the Constitutional, Article VII requires each state to organize specific practice conferences of delegates selected by the citizens of the nation.

  • These same Founders certainly didn't expect incumbent state legislatures to ratify this same Constitution although these administrations wouldn't agree would relinquish the authority those who held underneath the Articles of Confederation.
  • As a result, these same Founders compelled each state's citizens to competent adults to interpersonal cognition to establish this same Constitution.

Thus the approach "option C" is correct.

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