1how did prominent figures of the gilded age, such as andrew carnegie, both support and challenge the social order of the time?

a. they argued that government needed to step in to correct abuses and corruption within the economic and political system, while also supporting political leaders as having the right intentions.
b. they argued that people who were struggling had the opportunity to improve their lives under current conditions but that there was a lack of law enforcement against organized crime.
c. they argued that wealthy business owners were a natural and positive outcome of the era's growth but that they did also have an obligation to those who were suffering.
d. they argued that industrialization had divided society into classes with variations in wealth that were too wide but that most of those at the top were sympathetic to the poor.

swe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. — that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. "

- declaration of independence

  according to this passage from the declaration of independence, who gives government the power to exist?

a) the king

b) the people

c) their creator

d) their governmenthook