Which statement best describes rousseau’s view of the relationship between governments and the rights of the people?
a. if governments are to remain in power, they must protect the rights of at least some of their citizens.
b. when governments are created with the consent of the people, the people are more likely to retain their natural rights.
c. governments should act as a paternal, or father figure, whose sole responsibility is to protect society from chaos.
d. governments should only protect the rights of the majority, since it is the majority of citizens that give the government its power and authority.

Select the correct text in the passage. read this excerpt from the declaration of independence. which portion of the text reflects the founding fathers’ ideas about the natural rights all people are entitled to? when, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their creator, with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.—that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. options: "for one people to dissolve the political bands""life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.""to effect their safety and happiness."

About how many european immigrants were processed at the facilities on ellis island

If the united states became a "majority-minority” nation, o whites would be the majority, but there would still be ethnic minorities. there would be an equal number of whites and ethnic minorities. othere would be more ethnic minorities in the population than whites. o no one would be considered white or part of an ethnic minority group.