“Permit us, then, earnestly to recommend these articles to the immediate and dispassionate attention of the legislatures of the respected states. Let them be candidly reviewed under a sense of the difficulty of combining in one system the various sentiments and interests of a continent divided into so many sovereign and independent communities...”

Question

• The statement above, issued by the Second Continental Congress, is most reflective of...

• The need for military discipline and control over the thirteen colonies
• The need of the Founders to emulate the British model of a Parliament overseen by a strong central authority
• The desire for the separate states to produce a governing document to unite very different cultures and communities ***** ( think it’s this)

Answer 1

Yes, I agree.