Question: Read the excerpt below and then answer the question that follows. We the inhabitants and residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield . . . do

Read the excerpt below and then answer the question that follows.
We the inhabitants and residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield ... do associate and conjoin ourselves to be as one public state or commonwealth; and... enter into combination and confederation together, to maintain and preserve the liberty and purity of the gospel of our Lord Jesus....
It is ordered, sentenced, and decreed, that there shall be yearly two general assemblies or courts ... wherein shall be yearly chosen from time to time, so many magistrates and other public officers... whereof one to be chosen Governor for the year ensuing and until anothr be chosen, and no other magistrate to be chosen for more than one year: provided always there be six chosen besides the Governor, which being chosen and sworn according to an Oath recorded for that purpose, shall have the power to administer justice according to the Laws here established.
Fundmental Orders of Connecticut, 1639
The excerpt shown is from a document that is considered a precursor to the Constitution of the United States. The excerpt indicates that the document was an precedent for which of the following aspects of the Constitution?
The right to a jury trial
Representative government
Extension of local rights to residents of all states
Freedom of religion
 Read the excerpt below and then answer the question that follows.

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