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Here's a shmoopy AP U.S. Government question, just for you. What were the state governments that formed after the Declaration of Independence like?
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Thank you We sneak nen users from obtuse your brought
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to you by week executives here's hoping they have office
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Gym's state governments formed after the declaration of independence Did
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what And here the potential answers we could send that
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we that is well in bill right All right Roman
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numeral time after signing the declaration of independence colonised decided
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to form state governments who could bolster their movement to
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overthrow the british crown like that Humpty dumpty Well let's
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See which of these roman numerals correctly describes the choices
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colonists made in their reaction to british tyranny So let's
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start at the top Did these new state governments have
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weak legislatures Well not exactly after enduring the overbearing power
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of a monarchy Columnist made sure toe have strong legislatures
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which gave them protection against the abuse of executive power
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Alright how about two Were these newly formed state governments
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in possession of weak executives Absolutely After dealing with a
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tyrannical king for so many years colonised made sure the
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limit The power of state executives Yeah that whole fool
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us twice thing right So roman numeral two is a
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go How about three Were the state governments outlined in
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written constitutions Well because the unwritten british constitution pose so
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many problems during colonial rule columnist wanted their state constitutions
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to be written down with clear limits on governmental power
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So three whisky as well and what we're kind of
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on a roll here Not that all right let's take
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a look at the last one roman numeral for did
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the new state governments all contained bills of rights We'll
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actually only seven new state governments had written bills of
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rights so four is out of state governments had weak
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executives and were outlined in written constitutions That makes option
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d the correct answer After decades of abuse by the
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british government colonists were more than ready to move on
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from their post traumatic monarchy disorder You know good Oh 00:02:14.825 --> [endTime] no
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