Which best describes a major impact of the u. s. constitution? question 7 options: it promised freedom and equality to all people in the new united states. it established a government based on a document reflecting the will of the people. it established the world's first republican government. it proclaimed the united states as a country independent from great britain.

The lasting impact of the US Constitution was that it established a written plan for government reflecting the will of the people. Today, the Constitution still serves as the supreme law of the land and dictates how the government is to run - what the Legislature can do, what the Executive can do, and what the Judiciary can do. Additionally, the presence of amendments reflects the changing will of the people over time.

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.