Pluralist theory holds
A) That representative democracies are based on group interests that protect the individual's interests by representing him or her to the government, that too many interests exist to allow any one coherent group of elites to rule and that government decisions are made in an arena of competing interests, .
B) That members of an elite should be recruited through a merit-based education system, so that the best and brightest young people join the ranks of the elite and that the founders believed that a privileged majority should rule in the name of the people with a controlled amount of input from citizens.
C) That the power of scientific reasoning, which enlightenment thinkers believed could be applied to human nature in the form of natural laws, can solve every social, political, and economic problem
D) That the only valid government is one based on the consent of the governed evinced by a social contract between rulers and citizens that both sides are obligated to honor.
E) A & D