Why were state constitutions significant when the u. s. constitution was written?
a.
state constitutions did not guarantee rights, so the authors of the u. s. constitution included a bill of rights.
b.
the people who wrote the state constitutions had learned valuable lessons about writing a constitution.
c.
most of the u. s. constitution was directly copied from state constitutions.
d.
by using the state constitutions as models, the delegates to the constitutional convention avoided almost all disagreements

The territory of the united states is of vast extent; it now contains near three millions of souls, and is capable of containing much > ten times that number. is it practicable for a country, so large and so numerous as they will soon become, to elect a representation, that will speak their sentiments, without their becoming so numerous as to be incapable of transacting public business? it certainly is not." which founding document and idea does this excerpt reflect? brutus no. 1—limited government brutus no. 1—republicanism federalist no. 10—limited government federalist no. 10—republicanism