As Maria was putting down her purse after entering a dinner party, she was greeted by several people, so she wasn't paying attention to exactly where she put the purse down. Her divided attention at the time she set the purse down resulted in an encoding failure called , which led to her not being able to find her purse a little later.

“a monarchy is indeed the most powerful of any… but then there is imminent danger of his employing that strength to improvident or oppressive purposes.”—william blackstone, commentaries on the laws of england which of the following documents addressed blackstone’s concern in this quote? the magna carta, because it limited the power of the king. common sense, because it encouraged american colonists to declare independence. the mayflower compact, because it created a government and the first written laws for plymouth settlers. the english bill of rights, because it later influenced the u.s. bill of rights.