One reason people tolerated poverty during the Gilded Age was because they? A) saw that most Christian churches were taking care of the less fortunate.

B) believed that the less fortunate would be taken care of by the government.
C) knew poverty was only a temporary condition for most less fortunate people.

D) Obelieved less fortunate people were sinners and deserved their station in life.

The number (of legislative assemblies) ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. in all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. had every athenian citizen been a socrates, every athenian assembly would still have been a mob. 3 what does the excerpt suggest about federalists? a. they preferred the idea of direct democracy over that of representative democracy. b. they thought a bill of rights would give ordinary citizens too much power c. they believed that representatives were better able to vote on national issues than ordinary citizens were. d. they wanted to see a stricter test for those wishing to become americans.