Answer:
D & B
Explanation:
I don't know the context to this text, but beehives are generally very busy. The workers were busy, and they can be compared to a beehive.
The answer is
A) <span>It was we, the people . . . the whole people, who formed the Union. And we formed it, not to give the blessings of liberty, but to secure them; not to the half of ourselves and the half of our posterity, but to the whole people—women as well as men.</span>