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QuizMultiple Choice

Federalists and Anti-Federalists

Question 6 • S1S-OC: Civics (E1302 - AG)

Read the following excerpt from The Objections of the Hon. George Mason to the Proposed Federal Constitution: Addressed to the Citizens of Virginia, written in 1787.There is no declaration of rights: and the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitutions of the several states, the declarations of rights, in the separate states, are no security.

Answer
S
State governments would no longer exist under the Constitution.
L
Local law enforcement would be too busy enforcing national laws.
G
Governors could choose not to enforce laws under the Constitution.
N
National laws and the new Constitution would be stronger than state laws.
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