[Video] Q41: The main purpose of both passages is to

Explanation for Question 41 From the Reading Section on the Official Sat Practice Test 4

Question 41 says the main purpose of both passages is to what? 2 So let's look back in both passages and see kind of what the main 3 ideas are. And then we might be able to determine the purpose of the 4 passages. So if we start with passage one, 5 we can look at some evidence here. It says we have consecrated the state 6 that no men should approach to look into its defects or corruptions, 7 but with due caution that he should never dream of beaconing its reformation 8 by its aversion. So what this is saying is that the state 9 being the country, the government, the nation, 10 whatever it may be and the people it's describing the relationship between them, 11 right? So he, the people should never dream of beginning. 12 It's the state's reformation. So people shouldn't try to change the government. 13 And it also goes on to say that society is indeed a contract, 14 the state, not, not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement. 15 So again, talking about the relationship, 16 the social contract between the people and their government, 17 the state. So then if we look at passage two, 18 it says things like the vanity and presumption of governing 19 beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insulin of all tyrannies. 20 It says things like man has no property in man. 21 Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all 22 cases as the ages and generations, which preceded it. 23 And if you look at the conclusion, it says something 24 like, an...