Question 14: Many documents influenced the U.S. Constitution. Name one.

Official answers (any one counts)

USCIS accepts any of these answers. If the question asks for more than one, give as many as it asks.

• Declaration of Independence
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• Articles of Confederation
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• Federalist Papers
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• Anti-Federalist Papers
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• Virginia Declaration of Rights
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• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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• Mayflower Compact
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• Iroquois Great Law of Peace
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Grandpa explains

The Declaration of Independence (1776) came first and inspired it. The others came after 1787, kiddo.

Careful: these are NOT the answer

These are the common mix-ups. The app uses them as traps so you practice.

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Gettysburg Address
• Monroe Doctrine

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