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The American Revolution — Test

Question 24 • US History

In addition to influencing the Declaration of Independence, the Virginia Declaration of Rights served as a model for

Answer
A
the American Bill of Rights.
B
Common Sense .
C
the Iroquois Constitution.
D
the English Bill of Rights.

Explanation

The Virginia Declaration of Rights, written in 1776, listed individual liberties and limits on government. Its ideas influenced the amendments that became the American Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791. The English Bill of Rights came much earlier, in 1689, so it could not have been modeled on Virginia’s declaration.

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