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one day, john went to the town dock to fish. he had never been fishing before, but he used some fishing gear that had been his grandpa's. as john struggled to bait his hook, a man offered to . the man was elderly and told john that he began fishing when he was a boy 70 years ago and as he grew up, he got better at it. the man gave john some fishing tips, and john could tell the man had many years of experience.

elderly
adj. ancient
adj. antique
adj. mature
adj. retired

a.
ancient

b.
antique

c.
mature

d.
retired

Prior to the creation of the us constitution, the general view of representative government is that it only worked in very small-scale environments- essentially a city-state or smaller. otherwise, the actual reflection of popular will declined in the representatives (ie, the difference between 1 representative per 100 citizens and 1 representative per 10,000 citizens), and generally the whole process became inefficient and self-destructive.james madison, however, was like 'no beezy'. he remarked that small republics were prone to faction and thus collapsed quickly. a large republic, he said, had so many interests and factions that none could rule, and thus they had to moderate and compromise.

Ibelieve it is d but i may be wrong

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