The “critical period” that heavily influenced the formation of the Constitution was the
a. Revolutionary War.
b. Second Constitutional Convention.
c. years between the battles of Bunker Hill and Valley Forge.
d. years between the Declaration of Independence and the end of the war.
e. years between independence and the convening of the Constitutional Convention.
ANS: E
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