Explanation for Question 41 From the Reading Section on the 2017 April Sat
Question number 41 asks us Henry would most likely have responded to Pendleton's 2 claim about the members of the convention by asserting that day. 3 What, so let's first take a look at what Pendleton's claim about 4 the members of the convention was. 5 Um, that'll be our first step to answering this question. 6 So when we go back to passage to, 7 um, Pendleton's claim here is that the power of proposing was 8 very broad. So these men were well within their rights to try 9 to replace the current system of government. 10 Um, if they felt that it was better and that the Confederation didn't serve 11 its intended purpose. Um, 12 and generally he takes the side of, 13 um, the new proposition of the constitution. 14 Um, so how would Henry respond to this? Um, 15 he would say answer choice a they did not sufficiently address the defects of 16 the Confederation. Um, this isn't our correct answer. 17 He didn't really focus too much in his, 18 his address about the defects of the concept Confederation. 19 Um, rather he was pretty pacified by it. 20 He didn't really have any large outstanding issues with it, 21 so we can eliminate a answer choice B it should not have proposed an 22 entirely new form of government is exactly correct. 23 Henry did not feel like this was necessary at all. 24 Um, as seen in passage one where he says the federal 25 convention ought to have amended the old system, 26 and that's the only purpose they really had the right to carry out, 27 um, answer choice C. ...