The Following Is an Excerpt from the Manifesto of the Czechoslovak

question 29

Multiple Choice

The following is an excerpt from the Manifesto of the Czechoslovak dissident group Charter 77 (Evaluating the Evidence 29.3) : "Responsibility for the maintenance of rights in our country naturally devolves in the first place on the political and state authorities. Yet not only on them: everyone bears his share of responsibility for the conditions that prevail and accordingly also for the observance of legally enshrined agreements, binding upon all individuals as well as upon governments.
It is this sense of co-responsibility, our belief in the importance of its conscious public acceptance and the general need to give it new and more effective expression that led us to the idea of creating Charter 77, whose inception we today publicly announce. . . ."
The authors of Charter 77 were inspired by

• A)events in South Africa.
• B)a sense of their own responsibility for the maintenance of human rights.
• C)the American Revolution.
• D)a sense that the Czech government was close to collapse.

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