The Declaration of Independence severed the relationship between the colonies and the British government, justified the revolution, and provided a philosophical basis for limited government based on popular consent. Therefore, it
a. serves as a national constitution.
b. repudiated the idea of rule by divine right.
c. stands as a testament to the natural superiority of property owners.
d. was a formal declaration of war by the Second Continental Congress.
e. transferred powers on selected issues to a central government.
Question -2-The Second Continental Congress
a. was firm in their resolve to break with England.
b. took on the role of coordinating the war effort.
c. was poorly attended.
d. ratified the Articles of Confederation.
e. issued the Declaration of American Rights.
Question -3-A program of rental supplements was:
A. struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court.
B. plagued by inadequate local government funding.
C. enacted by the Section 8 program.
D. shown to be inadequate during the Great Depression.
Question -4-The Pruitt-Igoe Housing project:
A. was originally praised by architects as a model approach to public housing.
B. demonstrates how easily social problems can be resolved if people with those problems can be gathered together to improve service delivery.
C. had problems that were unique to St. Louis and were not found in other cities.
D. relied on helping poor people to buy their residences to improve the quality of life.
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