Read this excerpt from Federalist Paper No. 1 and answer the question that
follows:
Federalist Papers: No. 1
General Introduction
For the Independent Journal
Author: Alexander Hamilton
AFTER an unequivocal experience of the inefficiency of the subsisting federal
government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the
United States of America. The subject speaks its own importance;
comprehending in its consequences nothing less than the existence of the
UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is composed, the fate of
an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. It has been
frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this
country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question,
whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good
government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to
depend for their political constitutions on accident and force. If there be any
truth in the remark, the crisis at which we are arrived may with propriety be
regarded as the era in which that decision is to be made; and a wrong election of
the part we shall act may, in this view, deserve to be considered as the general
misfortune of mankind.
Which of the following statements supports the idea presented in this quote from
the excerpt? (5 points)
The subject speaks its own importance, comprehending in its consequences nothing less
than the existence of the UNION, the safety and welfare of the parts of which it is
composed, the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world.