"The Sputnik launch changed everything. As a technical achievement, Sputnik caught the world's attention and the American public off-guard. Its size was more impressive than Vanguard's intended 3.5-pound payload. In addition, the public feared that the Soviets' ability to launch satellites also translated into the capability to launch ballistic missiles that could carry nuclear weapons from Europe to the U.S. Then the Soviets struck again; on November 3, Sputnik II was launched, carrying a much heavier payload, including a dog named Laika.
The Sputnik launch also led directly to the creation of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In July 1958, Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act (commonly called the "Space Act"), which created NASA as of October 1, 1958 from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and other government agencies."- https://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/
The choices for this question are:
<em>A. It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve its political bands which have connected them with one another. </em>
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<em>B. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. </em>
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<em>C. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.</em>
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<em>D. It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security</em>.
The correct answer is C.
This statement associates the idea that in order to secure rights, is important to institute governments whose power is only just if deriving from the consent of the governed.
That means that democracy only exists and only puts rights into practice if its government relies on the consent of the governed. This way representative government, rights and democracy all depend on each other to exist.
