The correct answer is: D. They believed that representatives were better able to vote on national issues than ordinary citizens were.
Explanation
The excerpt contrasts ancient democracies, that were characterized by tyranny and run by mobs, to the idea of a large government representation so as to demostrate that whenevever a group of people is assembled, no matter who is in it, they tend to make the wrong decisions, that is, decisions led by passion instead of reason as stated in the excerpt:
"<em>passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason".</em>
Moreover, Federalists wanted a strong national government, instead of granting the power to the states, and believed that only one person could represent 30.000 people.
<span>The Great was retained because it <span>merged proposals from large states and small states about congressional
apportionment. Eventually, the main contribution was in defining the
apportionment of the senate, and thus retaining a federal character in the constitution.
It was proposed that the proportion of suffrage in the 1st. branch [house]
should depend on the respective numbers of free people. It added that for the second branch or
Senate, each State should have no more than one vote. Though this plan failed it was finally
resolved and an amended version of this plan was included. Benjamin Franklin made modifications so that
each state big or small was represented in the senate. The Three-Fifths Compromise was no longer
retained because it focused whether or not to include slaves in the total population
count and victory in the Civil War ended slavery making it null.</span></span>
They took the ice bridge connected to America, which soon collapsed after the Asians reached the Americas.
Jesus rose from the dead is believed by Christians, but not by Muslims.
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Native women traditionally responsible for:
Socialization of Children
Mediation with Whites – Cultural Broker/Cultural Mediator
Evaluators of language
