Which sentence best describes the conflict developing in this passage? the townspeople of phippsburg want to get rid of turner’s father. reverend buckminster must rescue phippsburg from the people of malaga. the townspeople of phippsburg want to get rid of the people on malaga island. sheriff elwell is opposed to mr. buckminster’s efforts to teach the people of malaga

The townspeople of Phippsburg want to get rid of the people on Malaga Island.

Explanation:

Conflict is a literary element that the writer use to create challenges in the story to create the suspense if the goal would be achieved or not.

So, according to the definition, the conflict developed in the passage is in line 3. In this sentence we find conflict developing as the people of Phippsburg want to get rid of the people on Malaga Island, because they think that they are wasting town's expense on them.

overnment is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.