Select the correct text in the passage. read the excerpt from us president monroe’s speech regarding the new latin american countries. which portion of the text expresses the president’s support for the latin american independence movements? the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, ∴as a principle in which the rights and interests of the united states are involved,∴ that the american continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth ∴not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any european powers.∴ we owe it, therefore, to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the united states and those powers to declare that we should consider any attempt on their part to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. ∴with the existing colonies or dependencies of any european power we have not interfered and shall not interfere.∴ ∴

[ Info : After three centuries of colonial rule, independence came rather suddenly to most of Spanish and Portuguese America. Between 1808 and 1826 all of Latin America except the Spanish colonies of Cuba and Puerto Rico slipped out of the hands of the Iberian powers who had ruled the region since the conquest ]

A. [ as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved ]

B. [ not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers ]

C. [ With the existing colonies or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered and shall not interfere ]

"a government in which power is divided between state and national levels". federalism is a system of government in which entities such and state and province, share power with the national government.

it was certainly a debatable decision, mainly because it was based primarily on political - and not on legal or social - views. since the congress at that time was led by members of the republican party, and the territory that the tribes wanted to turn into an exclusively indian state was predominantly democratic, the proposal (as expressed in the constitution) did not succeed, but the constitution itself proved to be of crucial importance in the creation of the state of oklahoma, and, most importantly, it guaranteed the involvement of representatives of the indian tribes in the government of the future joint state.  

as a member of congress, i would have voted to ratify the constitution, or at least to have it tabled. ignoring it was an interested and partial decision.