How did the ideals of self-government and citizens rights affect the writing of state constitutions?

The people who came to the american colonies in the 17th century had already been exposed to the idea of limited government mainly to the phrase in the declaration of independence stating "that governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed" illustrates the principle of

As the coach of the u.s. olympic cycling team, i can state without question that the swedish and french teams were using illegal steroids. how else could they have beaten us so badly in the last competition? the u.s. team trained much harder and was much more skilled than our opponents. we only lost because a few teams cheated.

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