Three constitutional moments and a voting denominator
A fictional revision task lists three real historical milestones: Georgia's declaration of independence on 26 May 1918, adoption of its first constitution on 21 February 1921, and the Act of Restoration of State Independence on 9 April 1991. It asks students to explain both chronology and the continuity claimed in the later act. A separate invented numerical example says that 900 eligible people are registered,800 vote and 760 support a proposal. One answer describes all three historical milestones as the same event and reports that 95 per cent of every eligible person supported the invented proposal. The teacher wants a correction grounded in the supplied evidence. The numbers are explicitly hypothetical and are not the official results of the 1991 Georgian referendum. Students must avoid transferring an illustrative calculation to a real historical statistic or treating a constitutional claim as a complete account of all social experience.
1. Order and distinguish the three historical milestones.
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The 1918 declaration precedes the 1921 constitution; both precede the 1991 restoration act. They concern different actions and contexts. The later act refers to the 1918 Act as its basis, making a claim of continuity without turning all three dates into one event.
2. Calculate support among participants and among eligible people in the invented example.
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Support among participants is 760/800=95%. Support among all eligible people is 760/900≈84.4%. Turnout is 800/900≈88.9%. The denominators answer different questions; none of these illustrative results is an official 1991 referendum figure.