Answer:
a. supports and advises the president
Explanation: edg
The correct answer would be alternative C)"It maximizes the political freedoms guaranteed to individual state governments."
A Confederal System of Government indeed maximizes the freedoms of its citizens, by giving more power and authority to state and local institutions.
A Unitary government benefits those around the authoritarian leaders, and least influential regions have a greater chance of being under supported.
This is Hemingway's belief that issues should be dealt with stoically and heroically. This can be seen in The Old Man and the Sea in the way the man never gives up and fights the Fish with all that he's got.
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