…[It] is evident [obvious] that the state, and if necessary the nation, has got to possess the right of supervision and control as regards the great corporations which are its creatures; particularly as regards the great business combinations [corporations] which derive [develop] a portion of their importance from the existence of some monopolistic tendency [desire for no competition]. The right should be exercised with caution and self restraint; but it should exist, so that it may be invoked if the need arises. —President Theodore Roosevelt, 1901
Use the excerpt to answer the question.
Which practice does Roosevelt advocate in the excerpt?
A. control of banks
B. support of unions
C. regulation of monopolies
D. freedom of corporations

The number (of legislative assemblies) ought at most to be kept within a certain limit, in order to avoid the confusion and intemperance of a multitude. in all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. had every athenian citizen been a socrates, every athenian assembly would still have been a mob. 3 what does the excerpt suggest about federalists? a. they preferred the idea of direct democracy over that of representative democracy. b. they thought a bill of rights would give ordinary citizens too much power c. they believed that representatives were better able to vote on national issues than ordinary citizens were. d. they wanted to see a stricter test for those wishing to become americans.