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CLOSE READ: Analyze the Text Identify the choice that best answers the question. 9. The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B. Part A According to the Declaration of Independence, what is the main purpose of a nation's government? a. to keep people satisfied with their leaders b. to help the nation grow in wealth and power C. to see that people's basic rights are protected d. to maintain order and stability by staying in power Part B Which quotation from the Declaration of Independence best supports the answer to Part A? a. 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.... b. ... [To] secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.... ... [Glovernments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ... [A]s free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do