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The author concludes that if an external force gives members of a community political self-determination, then that political community probably won’t be truly free.

Why?

Because there are certain political virtues that are necessary to maintain freedom, and these virtues have the best chance of arising during a people’s struggle to become free by their own efforts.

The author assumes that if an external force intervenes to give members of a community political self-determination, then people don’t need to struggle to become free by their own efforts.

(A) arguably undermines the argument, because it asserts that freedom is something a community can attain through an external force. But the conclusion asserts that a people will probably not be truly free if an external force gives them self-determination.

There’s no basis to claim that one political virtue is the first or not the first; nothing in the reasoning relates to the order in which political virtues develop.

This is implied by the premise, which states that there are certain political virtues that are necessary for maintaining freedom. Although (C) is not what we’d probably anticipate, it’s the only answer that matches anything that was said in the argument.

The argument never asserts that self-determination is necessary for true freedom. Rather, there are certain political virtues that are necessary for freedom. We don’t know exactly what those virtues are, but there’s no indication that the political self-determination is among them.

The argument never asserts that anything “should” or “should not” be the case. The argument makes only descriptive claims about what’s necessary for freedom, or what will happen if an external force intervenes. It doesn’t make any prescriptive claims recommending something or advocating a policy.

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