WORLD CIVILIZATION

Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is option C. Cicero’s ideas about the government greatly inspired the founding fathers of the United States. Cicero was a Roman philosopher who wrote extensively about liberty, equality and brotherhood which were the key principles during the American revolution.

Detailed explanation-2: -The founders of the United States were deeply influenced by republicanism, by Locke, and by the optimism of the European Enlightenment. George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson all concurred that laws, rather than men, should be the final sanction and that government should be responsible to the governed.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most important of the many classical influences on the American founding fathers was the political history of the Roman republic, because the American Revolution was political, and could neither have taken place nor succeeded as it did without classical learning to guide it.