British lit ! read the excerpt below and answer the question. there is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true no longer, but also to commence new practices, … (“on liberty”; chapter 3, p. 2) based on this passage from john stuart mill’s “on liberty,” mill would most likely be a proponent of theories. alexander hamilton's thomas jefferson's machiavelli's charles darwin's

Charles Darwin's.

This sentence would most likely match the way of thinking of Charles Darwin. The sentence states that it is necessary for people to be visionaries, and to discover new truths that challenge earlier assumptions. This was the case with Darwin's theory of evolution. Although it was not initially accepted, and it challenged previous theories about the world, it is now universally accepted and extremely influential in the way we see the world.

faulty parallelism is a grammar construction where there is no balance in the parts of a sentence they have a similar meaning but the grammar structure is not equivalent.

the correct version of this faulty parallelism in the sentence is:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation's third president.

the problem with the first version is that the sentence:

"jefferson was both the writer of the declaration of independence"

presents jefferson as both a subject and an agent for the verb "write" because if he was "the writer" then the declaration of independence was written by him, besides that fact, the sentence presents a dependent clause.

while the second sentence:

he was the nation's third president.

presents a basic subject+verb+object structure

so, to give a proper balance to the structure, or better said, to give a parallel structure, we must write a basic s+v+o structure in both sentences:

jefferson wrote the declaration of independence, and he was the nation third president.

a. is the correct answer