Everyone has different sides of the story:))
Well the government would not want to take a state out of the union. so i would say it is C.reducing the number of its represenatives
The Declaration of Independence was a document mainly written by Thomas Jefferson. John Locke was an English philosopher that came up with the basis of a legitimate government, and this heavily influenced Jefferson while he was writing the Declaration.
The most educated people in medieval societies were priests and nuns. Most schools were located within monasteries and unlike regular people who chose whether or not to get at least some education, priests and nuns often had to educate themselves because of sacred texts. Many of them even worked as copying machines and had to rewrite books.