Some Patriots were concerned that Thomas Paine´s approach was too radical. What alternative vision of republicanism did they hold?
a. They favored a republic ruled by men and women of property, with non-landowners left out of the electorate.
b. They wanted a republic ruled by a "natural aristocracy" defined by talent rather than birth.
c. They envisioned a republic where religion would strongly guide governance.
d. They considered direct democracy the best way to ensure that elites and the lower classes would share the burdens of governing.
e. They saw taxation even with representation as tyranny and wanted it abolished.
b
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