Why were state constitutions significant when the U.S. Constitution was written?






A.
State constitutions did not guarantee rights, so the authors of the U.S. Constitution included a bill of rights.





B.
The people who wrote the state constitutions had learned valuable lessons about writing a constitution.





C.
Most of the U.S. Constitution was directly copied from state constitutions.





D.
By using the state constitutions as models, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention avoided almost all disagreements