Answer:
The answer is B) the emotions of the governed.
Step-by-step explanation:
“And as this frequent interchange will establish a common interest with every part of the community, they will mutually and naturally support each other, and on this…depends the strength of the government, and the happiness of the governed. Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is…Freedom and security.”
-Thomas Paine, excerpt from Common Sense, 1776
“The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”
-Excerpt from Declaration of Independence, 1776
This is the passage you are referring to I believe