Read the paragraph from the speech in Passage 2.
If the spring of popular government in time of peace is virtue, the springs of popular govern in revolution are at once virtue and terror: virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, withou which virtue is powerless. Terror is nothing other than justice, prompt, severe, inflexible; it therefore flows from virtue; it is not so much a special principle as it is a consequence of the general principle of democracy applied to our country's most urgent needs.
What does this paragraph accomplish?
a.
It makes terror seem like a necessary response to maintain a democracy.
b. It explains why terror is considered a trait of tyrannical governments.
C.
It outlines why virtue is an important democratic principle.
d. It describes why the revolution began in France. •