Answer Choices
He would assert that the notion of a partnership across generations is less plausible to people of his era than it was to people in the past.
He would argue that there are no politically meaningful links between the dead, the living, and the unborn.
He would question the possibility that significant changes to a political system could be accomplished within a single generation.
He would point out that we cannot know what judgments the dead would make about contemporary issues.
Explanation for Question 36 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4
Question 36 says how would pain most likely respond to Burke statement in line 2 30 through 34 in passage one. 3 So let's look at what those lines have to say here. 4 It says as the ends of such a partnership, 5 referring to the contract of society can not be obtained in many generation. 6 It become generations. It becomes a partnership, 7 not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, 8 those who are dead and those who are to be born. 9 So the social contract is between the living, 10 the dead and the future generations. So then let's look and 11 see what Payne has to say about this idea. 12 We can see it in line 75, where he directly says, 13 as government is for the living and not for the dead. 14 It is the living only that has any right in it. 15 So basically you can see these passages in very direct conversation with each 16 other. And passage two is contradicting what passage one is saying. 17 So passage one says the living the dead future generations all have a say 18 in this social contract. Whereas in passage two, 19 you see that only the living have a say in this social contract, 20 not the dead, not future generations. So let's see which answer choice best 21 matches that here. 22 So we have answer choice a that says 23 pain would assert that the notion of a partnership across generations is less plausible 24 to the people have his era than it was to people in the past. 25 So this might be a good answer choice. We'll keep it for now. 26 It...