For each blank select one entry from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text.

Keane argues that the political conditions during the early years of the United States were, if anything, (i) to the formation of a nation united by one document: the Constitution. Rather, had it not been for a few men—Keane invokes the triumvirate of Jefferson, Hamilton, and Madison—to (ii) the Constitution, despite the seemingly implacable opposition of anti-Federalists, the central government would have had to (iii) matters of rule to the individual states.

Blank (i)

permissive

conducive

inimical

Blank (ii)

challenge

champion

undermine

Blank (iii)

cede

reintroduce

deny

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