Answer: C, petitioning the state legislature to change a law
Explanation: A and D are obligations and B is not a responsibility nor a obligation
<span>The US government has many regulations, including business, child welfare, consumer protection, controlled substances, debt and bankruptcy, education, health, historic preservation, housing, homeland security, immigration and citizenship, information and privacy, jobs and employment, protection of animals and the environment and transportation. </span>
6) A (the American Temprance Society)
7) D (southern opposition to tariffs
Since there are no infinitives, gerunds, or participles in this sentence, I'm assuming that the underlined phrase is <em>with Haiti's independence from France.
</em>This means that the phrase you are looking for is prepositional, since it begins with a preposition <em>with </em>(or <em>from, </em>if the underlined phrase is <em>from France).</em><em>
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