1) Man is born selfish but can give up some freedom in return for security provided by the government.
2) Both believed in the theory of a social contract.
The social contract is a theory that arose throughout the Age of Enlightenment and regularly involves the legitimacy of the state´s authority over the individual. Some of its most notable theorists were Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
3) The French provided financial support to the American revolutionaries, causing massive debt that led the French king to raise taxes.
When American colonists won independence from Great Britain in the Revolutionary War, the French, who participated in the war themselves, were both close allies and key participants. They were inspired by the American fight against a taxation system they found discriminating and unfair, and their battle against absolutism and unequal rights.
4) It used humor to show the need for social reform.
Candide (1759) is a French satire by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment.
Answer:
D. Better weapons and technology .
Explanation:
The American Army always enjoyed technological superiority and superior fire power over the communist forces. The US had air and naval superiority, and also in conventional power.
But the North Vietnamese had great manpower reserves and an iron determination to fight what they saw as a foreign occupier as long as it was necessary with persistent and intrepid guerrilla tactics, an asymmetric response to a stronger adversary. History provides many examples of the Vietnamese people´s fight against outside intruders in protracted guerrilla wars until the enemy wears down: the Chinese, the Mongols, the French and the Americans.
The correct answer is salutary neglect. The name of the policy came from a speech that the philosopher Edmund Burke gave to Parliament in the 1700s. A policy then emerged wherein the colonies were, more or less, left alone. Certainly more than they would have been as a subservient colony to the Crown.
