Question

1. read the text below, and answer the question that follows. i know some say let us have good laws, and no matter for the men that execute them: but let them consider, that though good laws do well, good men do better: for good laws may want good men, and be executed or evaded evaded in franklin’s print by ill men; but good men will never want good laws, nor suffer ill ones. it is true, good laws have some awe upon ill ministers, but that is where they have not power to overrule them, and the people are generally wise and good: but a loose and depraved people (which is the question) love laws and an administration like themselves. thus, therefore, which makes a good government, must keep it, we men of wisdom and virtue, qualities, that because they descend not with worldly inheritances, must be carefully propagated by a virtuous education of youth: for which after ages will owe more to the care and prudence of founders, and the successive magistracy, than to their parents, for their private patrimonies. which of the following best summarizes this text in one sentence? a society must educate people to be good rather than relying on laws to force them to be good. a society should use wealth and profit as lures to make people support the society. people should avoid praising each other and should think more about themselves. only through the design of careful and just laws can a society exist in peace.

Explanation:

The text emphasizes that good laws (not just relying on people's inherent goodness) and careful, just law design are key to societal order, as seen in references to laws needing propagation by virtuous education and preventing descent into worldly interests. This aligns with the option stating peace requires careful and just laws.

Answer:

Only through the design of careful and just laws can a society exist in peace.