The answer to your question is D
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.
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The correct answer is: "increasing understanding of American values and creating a receptive international environment".
In the 1950s international tensions shaped the emergence of two that two confronted blocs in the global sphere: the Western bloc leaded in the US and constituted by the capitalist countries under its influence and the Eastern bloc leaded by the URSS and constituted by the communist countries under its influence.
Together with the containment strategy against communism, the US aimed to spread the American values and way of life worldwide, even within the Eastern Bloc, organizing events with US jazz players in its capital Moscow. The intention was to show, in the heart of the URSS, how the American model that they critized so much was not that bad if, for example, it was producing such good quality music.
Answer:
This quote refers to the fact that the fall of the Roman Empire can not be linked to a single event, but rather relied on a number of cumulative events. For instance, many point to the invasion of Germanic Tribes from the North as causing the end of Rome. In reality, by that time Rome had undergone a series of internal and external crises such as Persian attacks in the East, civil upheaval surrounding the rise of Christianity, and the abuse of power by emperors and their followers. In the end, it was a little bit of all of these problems that contributed to the fall of Rome.
