Enlightenement ideologies influenced the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen because option A. The Declaration asserted the Enlightenment principle that governments must protect the natural rights of citizens. ... The role of government is to secure these rights.
Under the United States Constitution, slave owners had the right to reclaim slaves who ran away to free states. With the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, the federal government had to assist the slave owners. ... Northern abolitionists opposed this law.
B) a strong central government
They were the neutral ones