Using the following passage from jean-jacques rousseau's 1763 book the social contract to answer the following question: what then is government? it is an intermediary body established between the subjects and the sovereign to keep them in touch with each other. it is charged with executing the laws and maintaining both civil and political the only will dominating government should be the general will or the law. the government's power is only the public power vested in it. --public domain which quotation from the declaration of independence shows the influence of the idea of the social contract on the founders of the united states?

The courage that my mother had went with her, and is with her still: rock from new england quarried; now granite in a granite hill. the golden brooch my mother wore she left behind for me to wear; i have no thing i treasure more: yet, it is something i could spare. oh, if instead she'd left to me the thing she took into the grave! - that courage like a rock, which she has no more need of, and i have. based on the 2nd stanza, how does the speaker feel about the golden brooch that was passed down from the mother to child? question 2 options: a: the speaker thinks it was a waste of money b: the speaker places a high value on the item c: the speaker never wears the brooch d: the speaker feels it could be easily replaced