(1) The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property... (2) Whenever the legislators (try] to take away and destroy the property of the
people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves in
a state of war with the people, who are thereupon [freed] from any further
obedience ...
(3) [T]the people who have a right to resume their original liberty, and by the
establishment of a new legislative, provide for their own safety and security.
Source: John Locke, An Essay Concerning the True Original, Extent and End
of Civil Government, XIX, Section 222
How did the ideas in this passage influence the Founding Fathers?
They decided to create a system of checks and balances.
They decided to rebel against the British government.
They decided to separate the powers of government among three branches.
They chose to remain loyal to the King of England.

Explanation:Montesquieu's idea that no single branch of government should be more ... (2) Whenever the legislators [try] to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves in a state of war with the people, who are thereupon [freed] from any further obedience…

the reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in america focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of native americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).

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the answer is d. selective incorporation. (apex)