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Base your answers to questions 5 and 6 on the passage below and on your knowledge of social strving
down the insufficiency of the
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pursuance of the plan which I have amined is ston.
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present Confederation to the preservation
thirteen distinct
In our case, the concurrence lagreem confederation. th the complete
is requisite (requirant measure that proceeds of the Union
of every important floweseen. The measures
happened as was to have becencies of the executed; the delinquence has, at sight, arrested all congress of the
to an extreand brought them to
time scarcely possess the means of keeping up the forms of administration
till the States can have time to agree seping up the substantial substitute for
the present shadow of a federal government. Things come to this
desperate extremity at once.
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government yielding to the persuasive voice
of immediate interest or onvenience, has successively withdrawn its support.
till the frail and tottering edifice seems ready to fall upon our heads and to
crush us beneath its ruins.
Source: Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers: No. 15,
December 1, 1787 (adapted)
5 Based on this passage what action would
Alexander Hamilton recommend?
(1) strengthening the national government
(2) establishing a monarchy
(3) increasing the power of the states
(4) continuing touse the Articles of Confederation
6 Based on this passage, the purpose d
Federalist Papers was to
(1) discourage the creation of political par
(2) justify the American Revolution
colonists
(3) support ratification of the Constitut
(4) argue for a bill of rights