Identify the person who said each of the following."The principle of Man's individual rights represented the extension of morality into the social system-as a limitation on the power of the state, as man's protection against the brute force of the collective, as the subordination of might to right. The United States was the first moral society in history."

A. John Locke
B. Ayn Rand
C. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
D. Karl Marx


Answer: B

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