Read these words from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. "...that the nation shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth."

What is the meaning of these words?

a The United States and democracy would last.

b The war would be over soon without many more casualties.

c The people were essential to freedom and government.

d The nation would soon have freedom and be governed by the people.