The correct answer is A) people became more skeptical about politics and less trusting of government.
<em>One effect of the Watergate scandal on the nation was that people became more skeptical about politics and less trusting of government.</em>
On June 17, 1972, many people entered illegally into the Democratic National Committee in the Watergate Complex in Washington D.C. to steal important documents and wiretapping telephones. They were arrested on the site. Watergate scandal had commenced. Richard Nixon tries to cover the conspiracy but it was revealed in August 1974. After that incident, people became more skeptical about politics and less trusting of government, and Richard Nixon was impeached.
A constitutional convention is a gathering for the purpose of writing a new constitution or revising an existing constitution. Members of a constitutional convention (sometimes referred to as "delegates" to a constitutional convention) are often, though not necessarily or entirely, elected by popular vote.
