The main reason citizens have rights and responsibilities is to

a) allow the government to share power.
b) punish those who do not follow the rules.
c) keep the power of the country with its citizens.
d) to make the country the most powerful in the world.

C) keep the power of the country with its citizens.

Explanation:

This is the main reason a country protects the rights and responsibilities of its citizens. In a democracy, the power of the government and the state are considered to be found in the hands of its citizens. Therefore, the government is only able to "govern" because citizens agree to place power in the hands of their representatives. By protecting these democratic rights, the people can ensure that the government does not abuse the powers that were granted to it.

as university of miami psychologists debra lieberman and adam smith pointed out in a recent article in the journal current directions in psychological science, humans have social and psychological mechanisms to deter incest. with very few exceptions, marriages between brothers and sisters and between parents and their children are verboten in every human culture. the primary psychological anti-incest mechanism is the yuck response. even the idea of sex with their mom or dad, bro or sis is upsetting to most people. the psychologist jonathan haidt has found that nearly everyone is repelled by the prospect of brother-sister sex, even in hypothetical situations in which there is no chance of pregnancy).

the biological cost of incest

this raises an interesting question: just what’s so bad about incest? sure, having sex with your dad or your sister seems gross — but why? some anthropologists have argued that incest taboos are learned social conventions. this explanation, however, doesn’t make sense to me as it does not explain the widespread existence of anti-incest mechanisms in creatures ranging from cockroaches to chimpanzees. second, the incest taboo is about as close to a universal law as human moral rules get.

why should mechanisms to avoid incest be so widespread both in nature and across human societies? the answer is simple. the problem with having sex close with relatives is that there is an astonishingly high chance that your offspring will be born with a serious birth defect.

haile selassie i was the emperor of ethiopia from 1930-1974