Which sentence from the text BEST supports the central idea?

Group of answer choices

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

But it is not the less necessary for this; for the people must have some complicated machinery or other, and hear its din, to satisfy that idea of government which they have.

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished;

This American government — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity?

THE ANSWER IS D. This American government — what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity?