Why were state constitutions significant when the U.S. Constitution was written?


A.

State constitutions did not guarantee rights, so the authors of the U.S. Constitution included a bill of rights.


B.

The people who wrote the state constitutions had learned valuable lessons about writing a constitution.


C.

By using the state constitutions as models, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention avoided almost all disagreements.


D.

Most of the U.S. Constitution was directly copied from state constitutions.